Kampot
Since arriving in Phnom Penh, I’ve already managed two short trips down to Kampot, a somnolent town 150km south of the capital. Although both were work trips, I was struck by the charm of the town’s riverine setting and have planned a dedicated weekend of reading and indolence at the French-run Les Manguiers guesthouse, whose...
The Whitehouse Effect
There’s an interesting article about climate change up now at the New Statesman that should set some environmentalist pulses racing. In the face of apparently ‘overwhelming’ evidence, British astrophysicist David Whitehouse claims that that global warming no longer exists — not as a matter of opinion, but as a statement of ‘observational fact’. Apparently it...
