From the BBC (May 31):

The scientist who coined the term "global warming" in the 1970s has proposed a radical solution to the problem of climate change.

Wallace Broecker advocated millions of "carbon scrubbers" - giant artificial trees to pull CO2 from the air.

The formerly secretive Taliban leader in Pakistan felt comfortable enough to hold a news conference last month. Some wonder whether Pakistan's government really wants to bring Baitullah Mehsud to heel.

Globeandmail.com has lifted its Globe Insider restrictions that required you to be a subscriber of some type to access premium content on the website -- your Jeffrey Simpson columns and sudoku puzzles and whatnot.

However, you'll still have to pay for certain things:

• Archive searches
• E-Edition, the digital version of the Globe and Mail
• GlobeinvestorGold

All those are bundled into a package called Globe Plus, which costs as much as ... Globe Insider did, if not more! :)

By you, I mean whoever reads this blog.

I would have bet a large amount of money that this would have been my most popular post in May -- and I would have lost.

It didn't even crack the top 10.

The question now becomes, was it too bizarre ... or not bizarre enough?