Visitors make their way behind a snowman built at the Forbidden City in central Beijing on November 10, 2009 after snowfall the night before blanketed the capital. On November 4 government scientists in Beijing were pilloried for inducing a heavy snow fall that jammed traffic, delayed air travel and dropped more than 16 million tonnes of snow on the Chinese capital. Getty Images logo Getty Images 27 months ago

Visitors make their way behind a snowman built at the Forbidden City in central Beijing on November 10, 2009 after snowfall the night before blanketed the capital. On November 4 government scientists in Beijing were pilloried for inducing a heavy snow fall that jammed traffic, delayed air travel and dropped more than 16 million tonnes of snow on the Chinese capital.

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