The insufferably high temperatures affecting Moscow over the past number of weeks seem to defy explanation.  According to reports, the Russian capital has now gone through at least 26 days in a row of temperatures exceeding 86 degrees Fahrenheit, when the average daily high is only 68 in August, while those unable to exit the city are buying up breathing masks by the dozens.  President Dmitry Medvedev has even had an Al Gore moment, declaring:  “Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past. This means that we need to change the way we work, change the methods that we used in the past.“

Other Russian newspapers have taken their theories to the next level of plausibility – including this gem published in the tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda (submitted to us by reader I.M.) which blames the sustained high temperatures on a secret American “climate weapon” which the evil empire is allegedly using against Russia.  Our English translation of the KP article follows.

Heatwave in Russia – the result of climate weapon testing in the USA?

The merciless inferno has become a true ordeal not only for people, but also for polar bears. Certain specialists suspect that the current temperature records are not the fault of global warming, but of the application by the Americans of military elaborations

Svetlana KUZINA — 29.07.2010

Either flood or drought

An Egyptian inferno in the center of Russia – an improbable occurrence! Researchers are searching for the reason for the phenomenon, advancing the most startling theories, including that of climate weapons. The first to fall under suspicion was the not-unknown HAARP station, about which «KP» has written not once. It is situated in Alaska 250 km northwest of Anchorage. To look at it, this is a huge field of 14 hectares, from which 180 antennas and 360 radio transmitters stick out like from a pincushion. All of the “needles and pins” are 22 meters in height.