For every tragedy, we learn something new. It is so sad about the people who died from the heat and smoke in Russia but you can be sure, if this heat returns again next summer, a new plan will be in place. We can only learn from our mistakes.

Last winter when everyone said HA! Global Warming? Those who believed mentioned it was just weather. Now that Russia had a record breaking heat wave due to the jet stream being blocked which has occurs albeit not as significant. The warmists say SEE I TOLD YOU SO!!! Is this not weather too? Hypocrisy. The thing is about all this nonsense is people use freezing or heating catastrophes to point out this nonsense. One thing is for sure, many are trying to captilize off of global warming and they'd love to force market fluorescent lightbulbs, electric meters, and regulators, solar panels, you name it. The politicians would love extra revenue from carbon taxes all because they put the guilt on to the individual. Man can poison a lake and wipe out species of fish. We can deforest the land and make species of birds extinct. We can poison crops and increase birth defects, but we can't change the flow of the ocean, we can't stop the sun from shining. We have effects that are usually negative, but global warming is a scam as was global cooling in the 1970's and then in the 1980's early 90's was the depletion of the ozone layer that would incinerate all of mankind if we didn't stop using gases that deplete the ozone. Now it is CO2 and you are forbidden to breathe. There is nothing wrong with cleaning up industry, but selling us nonsense and making profit and forcing people to live restricted lives does not make the world a better place. Forests burn, it is a natural thing as dead matter builds and dries. Some seeds only germinate after forest fires. It happens every year in the US and parts of Russia. People should get back to real environmentalism... They can start by not throwing the trash all over the place. By all indications there is NO environmentalism here in Moscow as it is the dirtiest city in Russia, like a pig sty. People throw bags of trash out their car windows here.