I wonder if the children of Tajikistan fully understand the allegedly urgent need to turn the Earth's alleged thermostat DOWN

UNICEF - Tajikistan - A place for orphaned and vulnerable children to call home in Tajikistan

SHARINAU, Tajikistan, 23 September 2008 – In the countryside outside Dushanbe this summer, children in shorts and swim suits were leaping into a fountain, squealing with delight. They came from a boarding school for orphans but were spending several weeks in a summer camp where they could take a holiday from their studies and escape the heat.

This experience was a dramatic contrast from several months before, when the children were shivering in unheated rooms, suffering through one of Tajikistan’s worst winters on record.

Unseasonably cold temperatures caused water and electrical systems to fail. Hundreds of thousands of people across the country were threatened with shortages of food and supplies.