Not just the title of Magazine song.

The song is "About The Weather" by Magazine, a British band started by Howard Devoto after he left the Buzzcocks. It's on their final LP, "Magic, Murder and the Weather," which any rock critic worth his or her thesaurus will tell you is a sinuous melange of jittery punk energy, neurotic lyrics that mix cynicism with paranoia, propelled by surprisingly muscular funk in the engine room . . . or something like that.  That song includes the lines "But I can't do a thing about the weather" and "You dislike the climate but you like the place / I hope you learn to live with what you choose," which seems eerily prophetic about global warming, especially when you consider that Howard Devoto wrote them in 1981.

It also makes us think of that line wrongly attributed to Mark Twain: "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it."

Unless you're The Weather Channel, in which case, you do plenty about the weather, including probing the connections between the weather -- especially extreme weather such as hurricanes or tropical storms -- and global warming. It's not a connection some people want to examine or accept.