@vicar.

The sentence "The water crisis in Southeast Asia has been blamed largely on climate change strengthened weather phenomenon El Niño." Was taken from the article. Apparently you didn't read it.

Head definitely deep into the sand.
How is the mathematics getting on?

@vicar.
Au contraire my friend who wanders between pages. I do go out. The day before yesterday I photographically documented the damage done by freezing in my direct neighborhood and surroundings. Yesterday I did the same but then with a spin around and over Xishan mountain.

Conclusion:

1. There is indeed a lot of damage.
2. Damage is restricted to planted trees and shrubs and then restricted to trees and shrubs that should not be here but are planted here to give Kunming a more tropic/sub-tropic look.

And as tigertiger already pointed out this all has to do with bad gardening. That is having the wrong trees and shrubs for the climate zone and the silly practice of overwatering these. Overwatering leads to the trees becoming lazy and not developing their root system. In my compound this goes even further; there the trees are watered with water which is pumped up from the ground just under the trees. From the trees that did dye and got removed it was clear to see that they had not expanded their roots since planting some 5-6 years ago.

Solution:

Get trees and shrubs that are better adapted to the local situation and need less water.
This might give Kunming a lesser tropical outlook but then we don't have to look at those horrible covers they have to put on now every winter (And didn't work this winter).

Outside Kunming things were better. Local trees are far less affected. Main damage is done to eucalyptus trees which should not be here indeed.

This was good to see on the road leading from the Dwarfs Empire north to Taiping. This new road has trees planted in the middle of which many are damaged while on both sides local trees are in full bloom.

Still there has been excessive leave fall thus there is a greater danger of bush fires. (The bush fire prevention teams are in place again along the roads).

The first effect of climate change is more extreme weather. On the long run warmer weather. Who knows in some years Kunming might be suitable for sub-tropical trees.
Meanwhile another effect can be a serious disruption of nut production in Yunnan. Walnuts are an important crop in Yunnan and a warming weather pattern threatens the present trees while for planting them more north it is still too cold. There are predictions that warming might be quicker than the economic life span of a walnut plantation.

Now you probably will say: Here we go again, negative outlook etc etc, he's gone nuts. Well my friend there is indeed no yin without yang but your go happy ostrich mentality is not getting us anywhere.

There are discounted prizes of less than 50% for holders of a Kunming ID card. Thus there are reduced prizes for locals. But even with this discount I think the place is too expensive.

I think it is very simple. With more than 4,000,000 visitors per year (That is on average 11,000 per day) and that number is still going up you can ask anything you like. That it keeps people like me out does not matter. I enjoy cycling the area around the park.

Well summed up by MoonPie with respect to the underwater times but it will take less, not more, time for the nitrogen to come out on the surface and there lays the problem. I have seen risky decompression periods because people felt to cold and went up to quick. Anyway the lack of things to see and the low temperature will compensate for underwater time ;-)
And indeed have fun.

@vicar.

You clearly don't understand the technicalities of diving at high altitute so shut up.