Comment by Tarek

June 20, 2006 @ 8:34 pm

This is global warming

in action! I have no memories from my childhood of exceptionally hot summers .

Comment by Qwaider قويدر

June 20, 2006 @ 9:12 pm

Like you didn’t grow up in 50+ degrees with 100% humidity and dust too in the heat of Kuwait.
May god have mercy on

people working in heat

Comment by swifty

June 20, 2006 @ 9:28 pm

damn bush !

Comment by Eman

June 21, 2006 @ 2:50 pm

Tarek, yeah I know, I feel the heat getting worst every passing day. As you said, summer wasn’t

THAT hot when we were children.

Qwaider, there’s no comparison at all. First humidity here is far worse than it is in Kuwait. Secondly, one wouldn’t feel the heat

because everything was central air-conditioned, while here it’s not. AC’s are not to be found everywhere, even homes, few have them.
Not to mention the effect of global

warming that makes everything worse what it was before.
And yes, it’s the people working in this kind of heat that concern me so much.

Swifty, lol…

Comment by Jimbo

June 21, 2006 @ 6:15 pm

Odd: there’s no pointer from the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism’s site to this

entry of yours so graphically extolling the local weather.

Along southwest Florida’s “Nature Coast” (noted for its growing urban sprawl and vanishing flora, other

than that on golf courses), we missed the first of our two rainy seasons this year. The rain may have gone north to New England, which had floods. We’ve now entered the

second rainy season, marked by our first tropical storm.

And a happy summer solstice to you. Keep cool.

Comment by Jimbo

June 22, 2006 @ 3:24 pm

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2094224&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Comment by Jimbo

June 22, 2006 @ 6:02 pm

Not to bombard you, Eman, but this was just released. The Establishment weather services here, and of course, my favorite American President

(yours, too, )–continue to maintain global warming is science fiction. They’ll continue saying so until the rising waters cover their

mouths.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/global_warming;_ylt=AtrMVTFM9TI7Hxtf1iU6PLtrAlMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Comment by jmarie

June 30, 2006 @ 12:41 am

Like you, I too cannot help but feel horrible when I am in a cooler and air conditioned environment and there are our fellow

brothers and sisters working under such terrible conditions. I understand electricity is very expensive in tunsia, as is AC. What can we do? How can we contribute to stop

global warming. Did you hear about the Al Gore film? I am looking forward to checking it out to see what he and the producers have to say about solutions to this obvious

problem and not myth… thanks jimbo for the informative links.

Do you think Tunisia is hotter because of more development as well? Is there much media attention

paid to environmental awareness there?