Not really related to the previous post concerning the governments ban of incandescent light bulbs, but to follow up on the hoax that is Global Warming comes this story from a place you might not expect to have snow: Baghdad.

After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they’d pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people here awoke to something certifiably new.

For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.

Although the white flakes quickly dissolved into gray puddles, they brought an emotion rarely expressed in this desert capital snarled by army checkpoints, divided by concrete walls and ravaged by sectarian killings—delight.

“For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad,” said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New Baghdad area.

“When I was young, I heard from my father that such rain had fallen in the early ‘40s on the outskirts of northern Baghdad,” Abdul-Hussein said, referring to snow as a type of rain. “But snow falling in Baghdad in such a magnificent scene was beyond my imagination.”

Morning temperatures uncharacteristically hovered around freezing, and the Baghdad airport was closed because of poor visibility. Snow is common in the mountainous Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, but residents of the capital and surrounding areas could remember just hail.

That damn George W Bush and his Global Warming causing wars!!! Another sign that, in one of the hottest regions on this planet, Global Warming is a no-show.

By the way, what ever happened to the scientist predicted record hurricane seasons for the past two years? Not a single hurricane has hit land since hurricane Katrina. We really put a lot of wasted stock in these scientists, if you ask me.