JS> Last Monday we discussed the heat waves that have been
 JS> tormenting people in the USA. Well, as we saw then, it is a
 JS> global trend which offers more proof that Global Warming is
 JS> real. Now Russia is feeling the heat like never before.
 JS> Read on.

 Well, now maybe the right will listen.

 JS> From Fires to Fish, Heat Wave Batters Russia

 JS> By CLIFFORD J. LEVY - NYT

 JS> July 29, 2010


 JS> RYBKHOZ, Russia -- This is a country that knows how to
 JS> handle the cold, swaggering about during the most brutal of
 JS> winters. But the heat is another story. And there has never
 JS> been heat like this.

 JS> Here is how extreme it has become: Oymyakon in Eastern
 JS> Siberia is considered one of the coldest places on Earth,
 JS> with winter temperatures dropping to as low as minus 90
 JS> degrees. On Thursday, the thermometer also read 90 degrees.
 JS> Plus 90. In the evening.

 What may seem to be a good thing from a distance, or in casual
 thought, often is not when it happens. All enviornments are
 designed around various factors. Change the factors and the
 enviornment changes. Such changes will not be good immediately,
 and it can take a long time for a new balance to establish.

 JS> Much of Russia has been reeling. Forest fires have erupted.
 JS> Drought has ruined millions of acres of wheat. More than

 This was a subject of discussion on NPR's Morning Edition. Dried
 up peat bogs in the neighborhood burn, emitting smoke that fills
 the area.

 JS> All week long, temperatures have been soaring to records,
 JS> and on Thursday, they reached a new high for Moscow, 100
 JS> degrees. July has been the hottest month since the city
 JS> began taking such measurements under the czars, 130 years
 JS> ago, officials said.

 That was what they were talking about on Morning Edition.

 JS> At the Biserovsky Fish Farm in this suburb of Moscow, Ivan
 JS> Tyurkin trudged along a pier and surveyed the breeding
 JS> ponds all around him. He did not need a thermometer to
 JS> figure out that the water was treacherously tepid. Dead
 JS> trout, drifting like buoys, were evidence enough.

 When global warming first became a big issue some said it would
 be a good thing, since that means growing seasons would be
 longer further north. What they forgot is, growing food is a
 complex process, and changing one element for what seems the
 better will affect others, probably not favorably.

 Any change will require adjustment, and the adjustment period
 can be a disaster.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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