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February 24, 2005
Why is it so hot?
Mack asks, why it is so hot in KL currently.
He is right (as usual). It is hot. Damn hot. So hot that I sweat the moment I move. Standing still is not an option.
What happened? Look at the ticking tendency of the temperature. When I came back in 1993, the evening news always reported that temperature for the next day would be around 29-32 degrees for the Federal Territory.
Now? I think they normally talk about 34 degrees. One colleague of mine today said that it was around 40 degrees somewhere.
Why is that so? Well, we have the Kyoto Agreement - may be it came too late. We have freak weather all around us, and since I wrote this we have earhtquakes here and earthquakes there and more feak weather elsewhere.
Let's look at KL. Way back in 2004, I wrote that the trees are falling in Kuala Lumpur.
And look around you! How many trees have you seen today that are cut down. How many places where a beautiful big tree is suddenly missing, replaced by dust, or a damn road that soon is clogged with traffic.
Don't wonder if it is getting hotter in KL. Trees bring shadow, cleaner air, and cool the temperature.
Posted by Andreas at February 24, 2005 09:30 PM
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it have nothing to do with our city - perhaps the city don't deserve to get all the blame...
world's weather is getting weird...!!!
peace out
Posted by: Nilesh at February 25, 2005 08:21 PM
not only hot, but humid and dusty! arrghhh!
Posted by: buaya69 at February 25, 2005 01:50 PM
It's getting hotter in KL and it's getting colder over here. Yikes!!!
When I was in secondary school, it was hotter than usual after they chopped the trees off. Annoying!
Posted by: Eileen at February 24, 2005 11:17 PM