Global warming and climate changes are not new topics. Even before the young teenaged Swedish Greta Thunberg scolded world leaders How dare you! at the United Nations Climate Action Summit for failing to address climate changes and became a world celebrity, the issues have always been debated here and there. When I came across a posting in Fb about Kuala Lumpur raining ice cubes, I was reminded about someone saying in a Whatshap group that not long ago the sky in Peking became strangely dark at three in the afternoon. Closer home, my family could not help but noticed that for a few days now, the sky did not turn dark as it should in the late evenings. I remember the sky still being bright at 8, even 9 at night while in Tibet but then that was in summer when the days are long and the nights are short. In Malaysia where it usually gets dark near 7 the whole year round, a bright sky at 8 is rather queer. Today, there is a slight drizzle and the sky is partly red at half past seven. I suppose it has nothing to do with the COVID-19 virus and the dwindling number of cases. In the past, I read of people claiming that the Wuhan case was an indication of God's wrath of China's mistreatment of Uighurs. The man who posted the news of the dark sky in Peking hypothesized that some calamity was about to happen. Now, I wonder if the PhD holder would relate that to the the new COVID-19 cluster in China's capital which is linked to the large wholesale Xinfadi market which dabbles in fruits, vegetables, and meat.
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