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Photo: A worker sews a flag at the Hanghzou Donghao Flag Co in Zhejiang province on Tuesday. The manufacturer, with fewer than 20 workers, started taking a flurry of orders for the soccer World Cup last year and produced about 400,000 flags. China, despite failing to make it to the tournament in Brazil, has found its own way to take part. Employees have been working around the clock on assembly lines churning out flags and banners.

Buzzword: "Global weirding" refers to the worldwide increase in, and extent of, extreme or unpredictable weather conditions. If you can't point exactly to climate change as evidence of global warming, perhaps you can use this term to refer to it.