Aerial Views Show Just How Awful the Fire-Smog Over Singapore Has Become

Here's the weather forecast for Singapore for the next "several weeks": Massive plumes of wood smoke will roll over the city, reducing visibility to a matter of blocks and choking the daylights out of anyone outside. Stuff wet towels under doors and pray for monsoons to arrive early to snuff out the source of this foul air.

The source, of course, are those forest fires incinerating wide areas of Sumatra due to farmers performing illegal slash-and-burns to prep the ground for planting. With winds pushing the smoke eastward, residents of Sumatra are avoiding the worst of the polluted air – and appear to be rubbing this fact into the face of Singaporeans, with one Indonesian official telling them they're behaving like children when they complain. Which is kind of funny, considering that after a similar period of unchecked fires and smog in the 1980s, Indonesia's government cried out to the international community for help in fighting fires.