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Things are starting to "heat up"

Here is a post I thought I'd never make, Global Warming! Yes, an issue well heard of. It all started last night, when the lights go out around 2.30 in the morning so I couldn't sleep and when I woke up I realized that today was Sunday so I can lay like a cow on the bed for as long as I could :) So, I finally left the bed around 3 in the afternoon and opened the door to my balcony and suddenly I felt like I opened an oven. I closed the door and went downstairs, had a good brunch and checked my email on my cell phone during brunch while also thought to give a peak at today's weather. Turned out it was 42 Degrees Centigrade outside, I clicked "update weather" and I was down to 41 Degree Centigrade. It was bit of a shock for me to see such a temperature before even the month of May, so I started worrying about what it is going to be in the summer - typically known as "JunJulai" :) Anyway, I start Googling, came up with some good material on global warming (o...

Two Blasts Every Hour - Around the World

The image attached below is a screenshot from My Google Reader, I have recently subscribed to Dawn Newspaper RSS feed. Today was the first day when I had the G-Reader Gadget on my iGoogle home page. Here are some interesting facts that I noticed from 5 hours till 10 O'Clock in the Morning. I noticed that from 10 AM till 3 PM, there are 9 reported bomb blasts around the world, killing at least 20 people leaving numerous injured. There is nothing more than I could say on such an unfortunate reality. See it for yourself The reason why I tried not to read the newspaper was this. Newspapers, Internet, Blogs, RSS, TV, Radios every possible communication medium is filled with such reports. And what is it that we can do? The world is killing itself...