More mighty winds may be needed

Saturday's magnificent weather, which graced us with neon azure skies and glorious white puffs of clouds, was an inspiring and highly symbolic finish to a week marred by the worst smog Beijing has seen all year.

The week offered a lesson about the power of nature versus relatively impotent humankind. And a humbling lesson it was, for sure.

After all, the greenish-brown blanket of filth that held us captive for several days, just as world leaders gathered in Paris to discuss the poisoning of this great planet, was dispelled not by any efforts on the ground, but by the merciful intervention of a higher power.