Why spring in Moscow is utter hell | The Guardian

This year, winter in Russia, as in Europe, has been particularly long and cruel – or so Russians say...

Russians have been complaining en masse, convinced that this year's winter is dragging on longer than usual. Last Friday, a lone picketer went so far as to strip down to his tight blue bathing suit, cocktail in hand, to protest in front of Moscow's main meteorology centre with a sign reading: "Summer Better Get Here Soon". The fact of the matter is, they complain every year. And nearly ever year, it snows in April.

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UK rewards polluters & locks up people who want to save the planet http://gu.com/p/3epft/tw  locks up criminals driven by Green stupidity

Climate chiefs face Tony Abbott's axe | The Australian

A COALITION government would dismantle the climate change bureaucracy and put commissioners including Tim Flannery out of a job, Tony Abbott predicted yesterday as a report painted a gloomy picture of the future.

The Opposition Leader, who vows to remove the carbon tax if elected in September, said there would be no further need for the bureaucracy that supports it.

Hair spray targeted by Utah air pollution regulators: ‘There will be a lot of angry women’ | JunkScience.com

“This just wrecks the hair spray and it doesn’t help the inversion.”