Saturday, June 16, 2007

Bad climate

We went to Shenyang last weekend. My first trip outside the Great Wall. I felt rather cheated by the weather. We flew 1200 km northeast, mostly north, from Shanghai to Shenyang. The daytime high in Shenyang, a city that got 1 meter of snow early this March, was 10 degrees higher than Shanghai. It was hot. I thought Shanghai had bad climate - one wishes for summer in the winter and winter in the summer....

Now I am convinced that the whole of China is plagued by bad climate. It never fails to amaze me that this great a population density could be produced in such a bad climate. I guess mass migration is conditioned by both culture and economy.

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