Climate?

It is hot in Japan. It is also hot in Europe, and the heat is stunting the crops. Lord knows it is hot here... also ruining growing things: green beans are totally messed up, hollow and useless.

Let's go back Mr. Peabody and Sherman to the year 2007 
where we read in the Deseret News:

Global heat wave after 2009?
By John Lauerman


Bloomberg News

Published: Friday, Aug. 10, 2007 12:05 a.m. MDT

The Earth is headed for a record-setting heat wave after 2009, a team of U.K. climate experts said in the first such report based on observations from recent years.

Each year from 2010 through 2014 has at least a 50 percent chance of being warmer than 1998, the hottest on record, researchers led by Doug Smith of the Met Office, a government weather-forecasting agency based in Exeter, said Thursday in the journal Science.

The estimate is the first stemming from data collected since 1990 on ocean temperatures, heat-trapping gases and other factors. Other forecasters used information gathered from 1960 to 1990, the researchers said. By focusing on the next few years, rather than the longer time frame in earlier studies, the new report adds urgency to the challenge of reducing emissions that heat the atmosphere, Smith said...

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695199448,00.html

Dealing with change that will severely impact our lives... another thing we don't do too well anymore. Look at the Health Care Bill we passed. Look at Afghanistan, Iraq. Look at the out of control Intelligence structure. Look at controlling defense spending.
We the people are going to have to do it ourselves.

The Wikipedia picture above is from the European heat wave of 2003 - which I have frequently mentioned here - with a sign in Paris, saying that if one is looking for a victim of the heat wave, Paris has a "green" telephone number to call...

To me, this sounds a lot like Paris in the Plague Years !

pic: Wikipedia:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Affiche_canicule_Paris_plstaugustin_27082003.JPG