If you don't want to seem condescending going forward, you can safely assume that anyone who specifically uses the term AGW instead of global warming or climate change knows everything you said in your reply.
It's possible that both the AGW deniers and AGW alarmists are wrong. Climate change could be real, but caused by natural factors that are out of our control, the same ones that have caused ice ages and warm periods in the past when carbon outputs were nowhere near as high as they are now. But that theory would cause people to stop paying their taxes and mortgages and move to the tropics, so we can't have that.
I used to live in Detroit and can confirm. This time of year it's normal for temperatures to remain below freezing for days at a time, if not months. Temperatures remaining below zero is rare, but did happen for a week a couple of years ago.
AmiMoJo writes: According to security company Sophos around 55% of home users and 18% of enterprise users have updated to Mavericks, the latest version of Mac OS (10.9). Unfortunately Apple appears to have stopped providing security updates for older versions. Indeed, they list Mavericks itself as a security update. This means that the majority of users are no longer getting critical security patches. Sophos recommends taking similar precautions to those recommended for people who cannot upgrade from Windows XP.