Jakarta keeps city’s temperature cool for Asean summit
JAKARTA: The provincial government of Jakarta watered plants and protocol streets in order to keep the temperature in the capital city cool ahead of the 43rd Asean Summit that will take place on September 5-7, 2023, said ANTARA news agency. The 43rd Asean Summit will be the second summit to be held under Indonesia’s Asean […]
Firefighters contain French blazes
HOSTENS (France): A huge fire that has devastated swathes of southwestern France appeared contained on Friday as French and foreign firefighters worked flat out, but blistering temperatures made victory uncertain, local authorities said. The 40-kilometre active fire front in the Gironde and Landes departments around Bordeaux had “not progressed for 48 hours”, Gironde firefighting chief […]
On Climate Change and the Risk of Inertia
Recently, in some informal discussions on the subject of global warming and Climate Change I was surprised to learn that there are sceptics and naysayers who are not convinced that we have a problem at hand and who feel that all the talks on global warming is just a refined game or a clever scheme […]
