As North Americans basked in a January heat wave last weekend, people in Bangladesh were freezing to death.
Across the world, the media reported sunbathing New Yorkers enjoying temperatures that topped 18 °C, up from the usual January daily maximum of 3 °C. But there were fewer stories about how residents in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka were enduring temperatures that fell from the daily average of 18 °C to between 5 and 8 °C. The government called on affluent people to donate warm clothes and blankets to the poor, as doctors reported that more than 100 people had died…
