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From the Russian News and Information Agency (RIAN) “Residents of Wallonia, a town of 4 million in Belgium, will have to pay 20 euros for a grilling session. Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of CO2, a so-called greenhouse gas, is emitted during barbequing.”

“The local authorities plan to monitor compliance with the new tax legislation from helicopters, whose thermal sensors will detect burning grills. ”

Look out for the BBQ police and hide your Weber.

From the Russian News and Information Agency (RIAN) “Russian scientists believe that global warming can be slowed down by releasing aerosols into the lower stratosphere, a top scientist said Wednesday.”

“The director of the Global Climate and Ecology Institute, Yury Izrael, told a news conference that if a sulfur-based aerosol were sprayed into the atmosphere at a height of 10-14 kilometers (six to 10 miles), the sulfur particles would reflect the sun’s rays. ”

“He said one million tons of aerosol would enable a reduction of solar irradiance at the Earth’s surface of 0.5-1%, and a lowering of air temperature by 1-1.5 degrees Celsius. ”

I remember a time when aerosols were thought to be the problem - now they’re the solution !

From ABC News: “NASA administrator Michael Griffin is drawing the ire of his agency’s preeminent climate scientists after apparently downplaying the need to combat global warming.”

This is good stuff –>>

“I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists,” Griffin told Inskeep. “I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.”

“To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth’s climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn’t change,” Griffin said.  

“I guess I would ask which human beings — where and when — are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that’s a rather arrogant position for people to take.”

I think we all know which humans want to dictate their views. And among them it’s the Hollywood elite, you know, Al Gore, Leo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Laurie David.

The do as I say, not as I do bunch. They know best. It’s their religion after all.

From IOL, “Dozens of people were feared killed in remote parts of north-western Nepal after the areas were hit by a freak snow storm, officials said on Tuesday.”

“We have reports that at least 16 people died and about a hundred others were blinded by a freak snow storm and blizzard,” Home Ministry spokesperson Baman Prasad Neupane told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

The rescue mission is expected to proceed slowly due to continuing bad weather in the area and lack of road access in the district.”

When it’s warm in the winter, we hear about it on all the mainstream media outlets, but when it’s cold in the summer… shhh.

From Bloomberg ”The temperature in many parts of Argentina fell below freezing yesterday, pushing electricity demand to a record 18,300 megawatts, according to the country’s energy regulator.”

“About 100 schools in Buenos Aires province are closed today for lack of sufficient heating, newspaper Clarin reported. The national weather service predicted the below-freezing temperatures will continue tomorrow before rising later in the week. ”

The climate just seems to do its own thing.  Seems to be a rather “Inconvenient Truth” wouldn’t you think.

The Daily Mail writes “In Spitzing in Germany, locals have been forced to wrap up after ten centimetres of snow brought out the snowploughs for the first time this year” in May.

“It was the same story in towns close to the Alps in Austria, Switzerland and even northern Italy where temperatures in May routinely climb into the 80s.”

“Ironically, the weather follows one of the worst winters ever for snow at Alpine ski resorts.”

Hmm.. So climate does change. Sometimes colder, sometimes warmer. Global warming seems to be very picky in the locations it chooses to impact.

KFRY TV from North Dakota reports “It`s May 26th, Memorial Day weekend. Normally, there`d be kids playing on this playground right about now, but instead it`s windy, cold, and there`s snow on the ground.”

“Pretty much unbelievable,” says Kerry Schatz. “We`re Memorial Day weekend, and we had four inches of wet, sloppy snow, and this should be like two months ago.”

The Calgary Sun reports “The wintry blast topped the previous snowfall mark of 5.1 cm for May 24, set in 1911, with communities on the city’s northwestern edge among the hardest hit.”

This planet has a fever! Sorry couldn’t resist. Not in Calgary.

“And such meteorological mayhem is hardly unheard of this time of year, said Dan Kulak of Environment Canada, who noted May weather in the Calgary region can change at a moment’s notice. “

In Britain, the Sun reports “Heavy rain is forecast for almost everywhere, but areas as far apart as northern Scotland and East Anglia could turn white.”

The Met Office’s Robin Downton said: “The air is so cold as Britain is receiving winds from the Arctic.”

Wacky weather like this seems abnormal, but in truth it is completely normal. The earth is a self correcting entity. When it gets too hot, rain a bit to cool it off.

Well, climate change has now hit Mars.   It’s not the dreaded SUV that is the cause or even the methane produced by cows.   It turns out, get this, that the sun is responsible.  Who would have figured?

The Sunday Times of London writes “Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.

Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.”

Seems like something we should be looking into.