Les Enfants Terrible

DRUDGE IS REPORTING THAT INDIGENOUS leaders in the Arctic region are demanding that the EU do more to battle "global warming."

In their first visit to EU headquarters, three leaders representing the eight-nation Arctic Council met with officials at the European Commission and several EU lawmakers to push their campaign, warning their way of life was at risk.

Chief Gary Harrison, who represents the Athabaskan peoples in Alaska and Canada said urgent action was needed from the 25-nation EU, the United States and Russia.

"Urgent action" is needed they say. Urgent as in a total and immediate ceasing of the use of fossil fuels? The urgently needed destruction of all cows in an effort to reducee methane output? Perhaps the placement of massive corks into all active volcanoes?

Larisa Abrutina, vice president of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, which represents 40 different indigenous peoples, said her people should be able to share from the wealth in oil drilling and similar projects in the north.

"We don't get a share in the wealth in the exploitation of resources," she said.

This is a special occasion indeed. It marks the 25,000th time that global warming has been used to extort money out of wealthy nations.

Reports from the meeting noted that immediately upon the request, balloons were dropped from the ceiling, a red light began flashing accompanied by a wailing siren, and Ed McMahon appeared out of nowhere in a tuxedo to mark the occasion with a champagne toast.