Hurricane Irene Is More Evidence Of Global Warming Climate Change

... I mean it is, isn't it? Isn't everything?

Thankfully, Irene turned out to be pretty mild. Had it gone the other way and become a Category 3 storm, we'd be hearing "experts" yell at us that it was a harbinger of future doom because we weren't driving Chevy Volts and using Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs. Since it was kind of a dud, there's no linkage between Irene and Global Warming Climate Change in the cultists' house organs like CNN and the NYT.

Meanwhile, we can all have some fun at the expense of the doom-mongers.

For the television reporter, clad in his red cagoule emblazoned with the CNN logo, it was a dramatic on-air moment, broadcasting live from Long Island, New York during a hurricane that also threatened Manhattan.

“We are in, right, now…the right eye wall, no doubt about that…there you see the surf,” he said breathlessly. “That tells a story right there.”

Stumbling and apparently buffeted by ferocious gusts, he took shelter next to a building. “This is our protection from the wind,” he explained. “It’s been truly remarkable to watch the power of the ocean here.”

The surf may have told a story but so too did the sight behind the reporter of people chatting and ambling along the sea front and just goofing around. There was a man in a t-shirt, a woman waving her arms and then walking backwards. Then someone on a bicycle glided past.

LOL! Dig this:

Here we see the desperate situation as a reporter wearing safety goggles that make him look like he just stepped off the set of Radar Men of the Moon becomes a laughingstock as normal people cavort in the rain.