Someone came up with an answer; however, you need not believe in them to believe in the HAARP.
Related: HAARP at work?
I leave it for the reader to decide for themselves whether they here a HAARP or not. In any event, the conjunction of catastrophes to strike Iran's most potent defenders sure is suspicious.
"City opens ‘antismog’ centers as fires rage near Moscow" by Associated Press | August 9, 2010
MOSCOW — Moscow authorities yesterday opened more than 120 “antismog’’ centers to give residents an escape from record-breaking heat and choking smoke from wildfires blazing around the capital. Dozens of flights were grounded at local airports.
Overwhelmed Muscovites can “get their breath back’’ in 123 air-conditioned rooms that have opened to the public in government buildings and hospitals, said Vladimir Petrosyan, a city official. Most apartments in Moscow lack air conditioning....
Many reported health complications associated with the smoke.
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"Russian wheat harvest to dip by a third" by Associated Press | August 10, 2010
MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia’s wheat harvest this year will be off by more than a third....
Related: Russian Fires Threaten Food Supply
Putin said in televised remarks that his government will not lift its ban on wheat exports until the end of the year. The ban announced Thursday has already pushed world wheat prices up....
Russian farmers already have little incentive to export as grain prices have been rising even faster in Russia than on world markets.
Most of the damage to Russia’s wheat crop has been caused by the drought, as much of the country suffers through the hottest summer since record-keeping began 130 years ago.
But wildfires raging through western Russia have spread into farmland and there are fears that more fields will be lost....
A starving populace doesn't wage war as well.
Muscovites fled the capital in record numbers as extreme heat combined with acrid smoke from wildfires. More than 104,400 took planes out of Moscow on Sunday, according to the Federal Air Transportation Agency.
Analysts say the United States, Argentina, and Australia will gain the most from the spike in wheat prices, because Canada and the European Union are not expected to have abundant harvests this year.Need I even ask cui bono?
That is, of course, if our Midwestern crops aren't killed by the Gulf rain effects.
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"Uphill battle for volunteer firefighters in Russia; Muscovites answer villages’ calls for help" by David Filipov, Globe Staff | August 11, 2010
GORA, Russia — The Russian government has said that it does not have enough firefighters to battle nearly 600 wildfires fueled by the worst heat wave ever recorded here.
Look, HEAT in and of itself does NOT START FIRES!
It does REALLY MAKE ONE SUSPICIOUS in that NO REASON has been given for HOW they STARTED!
Military units dispatched to battle the blazes are underequipped.
And if their military is tied up fighting fires?
The blazes have consumed villages, woods, fields, and cottages across western Russia, killed more than 50 people, and blanketed much of the region with a noxious pall that burns the eyes and irritates the throat.
The ultimate toll of the smog and heat may be much greater: A Moscow medical official said that the daily death rate in the city has doubled to 700 in the heat and smog. Fires were nearing the Urals town of Ozyorsk, home of a nuclear facility that in 1957 was the site of an explosion that Greenpeace calls the second-worst in history after Chernobyl. The fear is that the blaze will kick up radioactive particles buried in the dust — nature’s own dirty bomb.
Well, actually, that would be MAN-MADE, Globe!
Related: The Oily Lies of the Boston Globe
And then they will turn around and tell you climate change is man-made!
What gall!
Btw, the BLOGS have been on that for a WEEK, Glob.
Cries for help, cataloged on websites set up by concerned citizens, sounded from across Western Russia....
Years ago, Russia had 70,000 forest rangers, whose job was to look after the woods, making sure there were firebreaks, pruning overgrowth, clearing away debris. But now there are just 12,000....
State-run media have sought to portray the government’s response to the wildfires as resolute — President Dmitry Medvedev traveling the country, upbraiding local officials; Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promising more than $6,000 to any family that has lost its property; the country’s minister for emergencies, Sergei Shoigu, vowing to extinguish the blazes within the week.
You know, the way AmeriKa's MSM has been portraying our presidents during times of disaster and crisis.
And Muscovites breathed a sigh of relief Monday when health officials announced that the air was only two times more polluted than acceptable levels, down from seven times on Sunday.
Still, the fires burn....
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And about that natural terrorist:
"Russian wildfires kindle concern on Chernobyl dust; Radiation experts monitor air quality as flames spread" by Mansur Mirovalev, Associated Press | August 12, 2010
MOSCOW — Wildfires threatened to stir radioactive dust from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster back into the air over western Russia, and authorities boosted forest patrols to keep the flames from contaminated areas.
I'm sorry, Globe, but that was NOT NATURAL!
Environmentalists and forest experts warned that the radioactive particles could be harmful, even though doses would likely be small.
“The danger is still there,’’ Vladimir Chuprov of Russian Greenpeace said....
Radiation experts from Moscow determined there has been no increase in radiation levels in the Bryansk area, on the border of Belarus and Ukraine, ministry spokeswoman Irina Yegorushkina said yesterday.
Would they tell you if there was? They did not in 1986.
The forest floor holds radioactive particles that settled after the Chernobyl disaster. Environmentalists warned they could be thrown into the air by the fires....
And here the Globe blamed nature for it!
The most dangerous radioactive elements left are cesium and strontium, which with repeated exposure could raise the risks of cancers and genetic disorders, environmentalists said.
Yeah, you don't want to start a panic.
“There is a higher threat of cancers and future mutations, especially for children, embryos, if a woman is pregnant,’’ said Anton Korsakov, an environmental researcher at Bryansk State University.
A leading nuclear security scientist, however, dismissed the danger. Even if forests in the most polluted areas catch fire, the amount of radiation will be many times lower than the natural background radiation, said Rafael Arutyunyan, director of the Moscow-based Institute for Safe Development of Nuclear Energy....
They think you will believe anything, huh?
Hundreds of wildfires sparked by the hottest summer ever recorded in Russia have engulfed large areas of western Russia.
Sparked by what?
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Finally, some relief:
"Rains cool smoke-shrouded Moscow" by Associated Press | August 14, 2010
MOSCOW — Heavy downpours cooled the Russian capital after weeks of no rain and unprecedented heat, but dozens of wildfires still raged around the city yesterday and a new blaze was spotted near the country’s top nuclear research center.
Hmmmmmm.
The city remains largely free of the clouds of suffocating smog that had affected it, but meteorologists say smoke from burning forests and peat bogs may choke the city over the weekend if the wind direction changes....
Russia was receiving help from the United States, which yesterday began deliveries of firefighting equipment valued at $2.5 million, the US Embassy said. The state of California also has contributed fire-protective clothing.
Several other countries have also aid the firefighting effort, including France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Turkey, as well as Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. Some have sent firefighting aircraft and personnel....
They don't want the radioactive ash or fires coming their way -- and who can blame them?
Earlier this month, massive wildfires around Sarov, the birthplace of Soviet nuclear weapons, prompted the state nuclear agency to move all explosive and radioactive material as a precaution. Reinforcements, including aircraft and robots, helped stem the blazes.
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And look who predicted it all:
"It has been the hottest summer ever recorded in Russia, with Moscow temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time. Russia’s drought has sparked hundreds of wildfires in forests and dried peat bogs, blanketing Moscow with a toxic smog that lifted yesterday after six days. The Russian capital’s death rate doubled to 700 people a day at one point. The drought reduced the wheat harvest by more than one-third.
The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel report predicted a doubling of disastrous droughts in Russia this century and cited studies foreseeing catastrophic fires in dry years. It also said that Russia would suffer large crop losses.
You mean the SAME ONE that LIED about the GLACIERS?
See: CLIMATEGATE: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Continuing the ClimateGate Lies
AmeriKan MSM Complicit in ClimateGate
Who refers back to a discredited report so full of lies you could blow a hole through it?
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