Monday, June 16, 2008

climate change

its an unusual delhi this month. the old govt buildings look soaked and wet from their terraces downward. you can see their walls drinking in the water. the rain has been beating down on the Mausam Bhavan incessantly for the last day and a half. probably they saw those clouds coming from there. coz even after a whole month of rythmic rain every 2-3 days, we suddenly believe and give credit to the MET deptt's claim that monsoon would hit delhi yday; that it was now high time we let those notorious winds claim ownership of the attacks. so the MET apparently foresaw correctly for the first time, in its life(?)
and now even delhiites who aren't really used to carrying rain protection, can boast of soaked shirts in office just like the island city of our country so proud of each of its catastrophes? but here not all workplaces happily spend the first hour in the morning discussing their flood feats. notice, i say not all. the place where i worked just for a day, did exactly that. though that was much before the MET saw the homogeneity (what did they mean by that?) in the grey clouds from the terrace of Mausam Bhavan.
also, though the climate is definitely changing, its showing signs of cooling down, what with the long winter and brief sunburn we had this year. what happened to the political essays around global warming? looks like the heavens after all set an effective thermostat within the core, foreseeing the evolution of the apes. the kooking koyal that surprised us at our workdesks today seemed to agree. so did the mongoose around here today

1 comment:

k said...

some argue there is a global cooling happening

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm