Shanghai's warm winter nights

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*Editor's Update* 

A few days ago, I posted the story below.  In short, no snow for Shanghai or Tokyo. Today, things are a bit different.  Tokyo's the same, but China's Northeastern province was hit by a huge snow storm, the strongest ever recorded for March.  Shenyang was buried by the snow, schools and traffic halted until most of the clean up was finished.

The Shanghai Meteorological Bureau reported Shanghai's warmest winter on record since 1873 and they say global warming is to blame. The average temperatures increased 2.6 degrees, making the average temperatures (in a usually freezing city) just 8.1 degrees. Although this has curbed some energy consumption and encouraged a booming vegetable economy in the short term, the greater, long term implications of global warming are alarming.