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Al Gore said that with all the global warming all these hurricanes were going to just keep getting stronger and stronger and more numerous. We're going to have them every day. Big ones, like Katrina. And he said that years ago when the earth was much "cooler" than it is now.

Anyhoo, to those affected by the storm, God bless. To all the media and experts over-hyping and predicting global-warming induced armageddon from Irene---maybe next storm. Not.


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/to...hat-never-was/

Perfect Storm of Hype:

Politicians, the media and the Hurricane Irene apocalypse that never was

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.

Across the screen, the “Breaking News: Irene Batters Long Island” caption was replaced by stern advice from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): “Stay inside, stay safe.”