"WE'RE HAVIN' A HEAT WAVE, A TROPICAL HEAT WAVE" – AT 8:39 A.M. ET:  We thank Irving Berlin for the words to our headline.  The weather people forecast 100 degrees here in New York today.  Al Gore is in his glory.  Maybe he can stand at subway entrances and hand out free thermometers as well as free DVD's of his film, "An Inconvenient Truth."

But hot weather is a time when memory is called for.  While we await the inevitable assertions that global warming is upon us, please recall that we have hot hotter days and weeks, before "climate change" was all the rage.  I recall walking through Central Park when the temperature sign on a nearby building read 104.  And let us not forget the dust bowl that struck in the Midwest and Southwest in the 1930s, adding to the economic woes of farmers.  And it wasn't many weeks ago when I was trekking through part of Manhattan during a bitter winter cold snap, one of the worst we've seen in years.

The seasons change and this will pass.  Within five months you'll see stories about the rising price of home heating oil, and the heating needs of the elderly. 

So, please stay cool.  Drink plenty of water (although it was probably contaminated by CHENEY (!!!!), and don't draw too many instant conclusions over the state of the Earth.

July 22, 2011