The NAO

Whew! I sure am glad that those terror attacks happened. Otherwise we'd have had to roll out Joe Bastardi again to try to convince people that the early start to hurricane season is all about the North Atlantic Oscillation and could never have anything to do with global warming. Even with all the work we've been doing recently to get everyone to understand that [his empolyer] Accuweather alone can teach us about the climate, unwelcome developments at the G8 would have occurred a bit too soon for our propaganda machine to counterspin effectively.