Monday, the world got Hotter.
If a 45C heatwave is causing South Sudan to close their schools, Kuwait City has seen birds free-falling from the sky at 52C. This Middle Eastern city has air-cons being placed on the streets to cool things down. What they don’t have on their streets is lava, like in Iceland’s evacuated town of Grindavik, where its defenses are literally melting away.
But not many hearts were melting away due to a historic “landslide” event in Russia. People have been taking to the streets around the world in protest against Putin, who came into power 25 years ago in 1999, and secured another 6 years to ensure his reign until 2030. Meanwhile, Washington is wondering if the early peaking of cherry blossoms for the second time in over a century is due to a warm March. What they have stopped wondering is how lo…
