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Warmth of Winter

January 7, 2010 – 8:51 am

My friends are reacting to the prolonged cold snap by discounting the research of thousands of scientists with the simplistic query. “Where’s global warming now?” My attempts to explain the ever-increasing swings in weather extremes are in vain. “But it’s cold and the planet is supposedly to be getting warm.” “There’s 6 billion people on […]

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Winter in Thailand

November 9, 2008 – 1:14 pm

Last night riding home on my motorcycle, I suppressed a shiver. Fah nao or the cold season had arrived like clockwork. Not that we should expect snow. The mountains in the North drop to 3C above Zero at worst and the season ends in February, but for the next two months Thais will be bundling […]

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