Thursday, March 03, 2005

Disaster upon disaster

This extract is from a very long article from The Straits Times Feb. 23..some of you may have read it but i would like to make a few comments about it. I would, however, only stress on two parts of this article and they are "Vicious Winter" and " Lethal storms". In the part "vicous winter", it said that "at least 180 children have died in Afghanistan's coldest winter in years, the Health Minister said yesterday, amid warnings that the final toll from the subzero temperature and heavy snow could run into the thousands" and in Kashmir "Heavy snow and low temperatures have gripped the Kashmir valley since last week. Avalanches and mudslides have buried entire villages and collasped houses across the state." Okie..look.. for these two countries it seemed that winter this year was the coldest that they ever had and it really does seem that there is something very wrong with the climate. For the part "Lethal Storms": "Mudslides trapped residents in their homes and forced others to flee as lethal storms continues to pound southern california for the fifth consecutive day, in what could prove to be the wettest rainfall season on record in Los Angeles" In the later part of this part: "There is also a possibility of severe thunderstorms and hailstorms in the coastal valleys and blizzard conditions in the mountains. "If it keeps raining like this, and it will, it'll break the record set more than 120 years ago," said Mr. Bill Patzert, a meteorologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada." okie so in this article it is obvious that it kept raining, yes, the thing is look at the phrase "it'll break the record set more than 120 years ago" it seemed to be similar to the first one " coldest winter in years" so therefore the climate is moving into the EXTREME. In singapore, we are now experiencing a dry spell though it's getting better now but two weeks ago it was so hot tt u could just cook an egg on the ground. Temperatures could go to 34, 35 and the Fire stations had received more bush fire cases compared to the last few years and it is said that it is the worst dry spell in the last 29 years. So, the conclusion is still the same thing. Global Warming.

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