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 1 week 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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