A single bullet

[EternalOptimist]

Sorry to be a pain here, but Borneo is just an island that has three countries on it. Brunei is there as is Malaysia and Indonesia. Suharto was the President of Indonesia till 98 and not Dictator of Borneo.

Also the last fire (The 02-03 one) emitted 1 billion tonnes of CO2, which is a lot, but not a third of world emissions and nowhere near the USA's annual 6.1 billion tonnes.

So the point of the sotry was....?

'just' an island. what do you mean by 'just' does that make it insignificant ?
Britain is 'just' an island
Borneo is three time the size


Nobody get voted 'Dictator' (not since Julius Caesar) Adolf Hitler was Chancellor, but no one disputes he was a dictator. Suhato was also a dictator, albeit voted in as president.


The last fire was in 2003 ???? bollocks


http://www.reuters.com/article/homep...1803._CH_.2400

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...sia_fires.html

http://portal.campaigncc.org/node/1374

http://redapes.org/science/indonesia...-choking-haze/



It is true that I cant answer Brillos question, are the peat fires still burning ?
they were last year. I will have a little poke around tomorrow to see if I can find out

[Doggy Styles]

Didn't the UK have some mines somewhere that were smouldering away for many years?

[Churchill]

Didn't the UK have some mines somewhere that were smouldering away for many years?

Have a trip down the Thames, there's a big f**k off shipwreck with a no fly zone around it...

That baby goes up I want to be in Glasgow...

[threaded]

When younger on my Grand Tour I visited Indonesia and remember seeing several places where they were 'improving' the land. One place they removed entire hills, asking the farmers permission first of course.

This democratic process produced wonderfully amusing sights where a farmer or two had said no to them removing the hill. Their fields were left where they were, perched up the top of towers of earth, some up 4 storeys in the sky.

[Swiss Tony]

I grew up in Singapore and my folks still live out there. It is not uncommon to get a smoky haze, sometimes a pretty bad one, when the winds blew from that region. There’s no way to put them out without getting into the mines which are ablaze and well rather warm, and they are still burning.

[EternalOptimist]

What?

A doggie frightened of a mere 5kt?

Shocked.

you can not be sirius