Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming weather No, the climate won't stay the same forever, regardless. I'm coming from acceptance of the general scientific findings of the great majority of climatologists, who think our continuing use of fossil fuels is going to lead to, and probably already has begun to lead to, serious trouble, and that whatever other climatological factors may or may not be involved, continuing use will lead to greater problems, some of which may arrive rather suddenly.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming weather Vicar: Your logic does not establish 'therefore insignificant' in the present period, which the planet has not had before. Granted, the factors you mention have been important and still are, as every climatologist knows, no doubt better than you and I. Yet most climatologists still maintain that the human species has been screwing up the climate.
Explain.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming weather Appreciate the contribution. I'm too lazy to dig up all the many, many scientific articles with contrary opinions, but scientists do this regularly among themselves and I generally trust them, unless I have specific reasons not to. Let us know if you do or don't, and why.
Anyway, I guess recent local weather can't be pinned down that accurately, at lest not yet. Tell me if you can do so, one way or the other.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming weather there are numerous theories. What do most of them agree about concerning current climate change? Of course, it's not necessarily the majority of theories that will turn out to be correct, but evaluating them is beyond me, as I am not a climatologist. I must rely on the (usually honest) dialogue between those who are climatologists, and perhaps add doubts when there are obvious reasons to suspect (for political or economic reasons, for instance) the honesty or competence of any particular ones. Perhaps you can do better than this, but I don't know how.
Science is never about the knowledge of Absolute Truth, it's just about the best we've (they've) come up with so far. My obviously unprofessional opinion is that the world is getting warmer, and that the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath has a lot to do with this - whether recent local weather is a reflection of this, I don't know. Maybe somebody with more expertise can help here, maybe not.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming weather When an article merely states that "experts" have some point of view, it is pretty unclear who the 'experts' are, how many they are, whether they represent a majority opinion of 'experts', whether the 'experts' consulted have been cherry-picked, etc. I'm not familiar with the Daily Star online, but this is bad journalism.
Winners: Best of Kunming Awards 2016-2017
发布者Saw a couple people accept and then immediately auction off excellent raffle prizes they had won but would not or could not make use of, and give the money to a charity - seems to me to be a good and valid option to include in future events.
Dual high-speed railways usher in new era for Yunnan
发布者Note that the South RR Station is on the underground/subway.
I have just returned from Guangzhou to Kunming South - 9 hours, good comfortable seats, quiet, smooth, bright & shiny; ran at about 200 kms/hr. Price a little over Y400. Even the food on the train was better than the usual quite-bad food on ordinary trains. There's a faster train that is supposed to take about 6 hours, price a little over Y800.
Around Town: Dancing in Green Lake Park
发布者On balance it's a good thing: public space for the public.
Heshun: Old school charm in western Yunnan
发布者Really nice photos, makes me want to visit the place, although I object to the practice in China of charging entrance fees to visit whole towns, which turn them into museums.
Celebrating a Miao Christmas in Yunnan
发布者I take your point, hedgepig, but cultures change, very often brought on by outside influences, and I'm not sure that taking on Christianity is necessarily more negative than taking on nationalism or various other doctrines - I'm not pushing anything in particular, except that the circumstances are always somewhat particular and have to be judged that way. For better or for worse, there is no hermetic sealing against the outside - the general question is, who's in charge here?