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JPG · August 12th 05, 12:59 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

wrote:
This is not an El Nino year this should not be happening.

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Malaysians prayed for rain on Friday and a quick end to the country's
worst pollution crisis in eight years as residents choked on acrid
forest-fire smoke blowing in from neighboring Indonesia.

As the call to prayers echoed from mosques around this mainly Muslim
country, the premier called for Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and
Hindus to beg divine intervention to wash the skies of a week-long haze
that has threatened public health.

"When something like this happens, we have to ask for God's help,"
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was quoted as saying in Malay-language newspaper
Utusan Malaysia on Friday.

I know I shouldn't respond to this but I am bound to say that perhaps
human energies should be directed towards putting the fires out in the
real world rather than trying to invoke the "power" of supernatural
deities in the religious fantasy world.

I know that praying is a comfort to some people and I do not wish to
deny them that, but get the priorities right, please!

JPG (in support of science)