The number of freezing days in winter during recent years is decreasing dramatically. Well, maybe not that dramatic because it takes like 9 months for the 2 ends meet so that people can have a comparison. But it did surprised everyone this winter for not having any snow. When the snow finally reluctantly arrived Beijing on 17th, it’s already Spring.
Looking outside my window in the next morning, only the river is still covered with snow. No trace of it can be found on the streets due to heavy morning traffic.
These 2 were taken the next day when the snow became a little heavier.
Taken from above the river.
Some say the snow was man-made using rockets fired up to the sky. I don’t know for sure. But it does look like the effect of global warming is getting serious. I guess it wouldn’t be long when we have only one season on earth, a hot, sweaty summer. Or, extreme cold in some places and extreme hot in others.
But no need to worry, we intelligent humans are always capable of alter the nature using freaky machinery, equipments, techniques, technologies… We will have whatever season we want using rockets, a beam of laser light, a bunch of fire crackers, or just a simple click on the keyboard. We are the lord, if nature refuses to act in our favor, we’ll simply make it!
Until, until one day, everything looks like nature on this planet is actually man-made. You see why there must be a God? We humans can create a fake earth, why can’t God create a universe?
Maybe everything around us is actually created on purpose, with precise and complex design in mind.
God doesn’t need to be all divine, godly, and intangible, he maybe right now comfortably sitting in his armchair, clicking on keyboards, watching us little plastic toys running around in a computer screen, and laughing.
A little off topic. All I wanna say is climate change may takes decades or centuries to be evident for us living in it. But look from the perspective of the whole course of human history (from the 1st Homo Erectus to the day we die out), it will be just a blink of an eye, and a couple of pages in the Nature text books for the next batch of intellectual beings on earth (cockroaches or rats?).
There’s a famous ancient poem in China pretty sums up my feelings: “You don’t see the real Mount Lu, only because you are in it”.
Very good point! Thanx for showing us snowy Beijing!
Thanks Giorgos!