22nd Sept.

Completed morning program. Attended 13th  AGM of CSOI at Chanakyapuri. The 44 crore new  CSOI building at Chanakyapuri is inaugurated with the meeting.  CSOI will, however, continue to operate from Kasturba Gandhi Marg also as before. Over 2 thousand members joined in lunch with spouses. As it was a herculean task to get food in the crowd, we went to Cafe Coffee Day at Khanmarket. Venita ordered a large plate of french fries with chilly sauce and coffee We had our fill.

News of the day :"This week probably saw the Arctic Ocean's sea ice reach its  minimum extent for the year and begin to expand again, as it usually does in mid-September. Given that the retreat of Arctic ice has become a key piece of evidence for those who take a more alarmed view of global warming, it's newsworthy that 2012's melt was the greatest since records began in 1979, with sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere shrinking to about 1.3 million square miles, or about half the 1979-2008 average.As this column has sometimes pointed out ways in which the effects of global warming are happening more slowly than predicted, it is fair to record that this rate of decline in Arctic sea ice is faster than many predicted. Although an entirely ice-free Arctic Ocean during at least one week a year is still several decades away at this rate, we are halfway there after just three decades."The Wall Street Journal, India edition, dt. 22.09. 2012 on line.
Retired to sleep at 10.30 pm.