or ‘Empty Quarter’— a desert spanning 250,000 square miles on the Arabian Peninsula. The desert is home to the site of Saruq Al-Hadid, which holds evidence of 5,000 years of human activity.
The most Government spokesmen will concede is that we may experience climate change by the end of the twentyfirst century, to counter which, they have laid down elaborate goals for 2050 or 2070.