By using the keywords nieve and neve (instead of snow) many interesting articles can be found on the Internet
Guest essay by Argiris Diamantis
Snowfall, like the present snowfall in South America, can be considered to be weather rather than to be climate. However there is a danger to this approach. Heavy snowfall can disrupt normal daily life and cause lots of victims. Unusual and heavy snowfall are certainly items of the news. But the Main Stream Media (MSM) are warm bias, they report almost every heat wave, and pay little or no attention to what many call “cold snaps”. In this way people reading the big newspapers and watching the television news get a distorted view of the world.
They are inclined to believe that global warming is happening because this message is repeated over and over again in the MSM. All news items about heat waves are considered to be proof or evidence of global warming.
By not reporting (or underreporting) about “cold snaps” the public is being brainwashed into believing that the world is warming, while it in reality is cooling.
At the moment it is very cold in many places in South America. Sure, the heaviest snow in 30 years has fallen in the Atacama desert and some media have paid attention to that. WUWT has of course has reported about it. But I am afraid that was not enough. Heavy snow in the Chilean Atacama desert seems like a piece of “weird news”, if you keep silent about all that is happening now in South America. The big problem is that you hardly find any news Google-searching with the keyword snow. If you use the words nieve (Spanish) or neve (Portuguese) instead, you will find lots of articles about what is not just a normal winter in South America. We need climate realists who speak the Spanish language (and a bit of Portuguese) more than ever to inform the world about the present snow disruption of life in South America.
Peru has declared the national emergency status because of heavy snowfall. Did you know that? Is that not news? Thousands of lives are in danger because of heavy snowfall in Bolivia. I think that is news.
I will give some links to recent news items in Spanish and Portuguese language to illustrate what I mean.
Argentina: http://tn.com.ar/tnylagente/nieve-en-miramar_407745
http://www.todojujuy.com/locales/paso-de-jama-cortado-por-la-nieve-del-lado-chileno_13074
Brazil: http://www.correiodopovo.com.br/Noticias/?Noticia=506283
Paraguay (about Peru): http://www.ultimahora.com/mas-5200-familias-aisladas-una-intensa-nevada-el-sureste-peru-n716955.html
Uruguay: http://www.unoticias.com.uy/articulos/articulos_masinfo.php?id=51418&secc=articulos&path=0.284
Colombia (about Peru): http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/internacional/noticias/peru-declaro-estado-emergencia-region-andina-puno-por-nevadas
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Without a doubt the MSM is warm-biased. It’s easier for them. Set up a meme…and flog it to death.
This only proves Joe Romm’s “little known fact” that warmer weather causes more snow. 😉
Peru Heavy Snowfall: Tens of Thousands Stranded, Livestock Killed
http://www.weather.com/news/peru-heavy-snow-20130829
Send reports of unusual weather to World Weather News collated by Roger Brugge at the University of Reading
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/world.html
2013 and Florida Manatees are still croaking at a high rate due to cold and crimson tide.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/keyword/florida-waters/featured/2
In just the first three months of this year, 409 manatees died in Florida waters, compared with 115 in the same period last year. The total number of deaths last year in Florida was 392.
“I don’t know that we’ve ever reached such a high number of manatee deaths this early in the year,” said Jaclyn Lopez, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental non-profit organization based in St. Petersburg. “The overall message is that we need to be doing more to protect or our Florida manatee populations.”
Most of the deaths were the result of red tide on the state’s west coast, cold water temperatures and undetermined causes. Only 20 deaths were blamed on human activities, such as boat strikes or getting tangled in fishing nets…
It snowed recently on the island of Sumatra which is on the equator. This is the first time in recorded history that it has ever snowed there! Photos of the event were shown on Indonesia TV.
I first heard about the chilly situation there from Joe Bastardi. He’s been keeping an eye on South American weather.
The only “snow” in Peru which the MSM appears to have mentioned recently is that which two European women were allegedly caught smuggling.
Possibly of most interest is that many of these are tropical countries.
Any similar reports from Southern Africa or Indonesia?
But but,..some AGWer is sure to claim the cold is caused by climate change..
We have a new kind of global warming. This warming causes chills, more snow and leaves those who cannot afford heating costs frozen to death.
Ben D says:
August 29, 2013 at 11:16 pm
But but,..some AGWer is sure to claim the cold is caused by climate change..
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Of course it is. Simple physics …. oooooh errr
South Africa is still getting low temperatures. It is spring for them.
Last night CCTV showed many townships in the Cape area are badly flooded.
This may be the main culprit, the sea surface temperature anomaly:
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2013/anomnight.8.29.2013.gif
In Japan we have been suffering from a big heat wave: now (15:43 pm) in Tokyo the temperature is 36-37 degC = 100 degF.
By definition, a cold snap is a brief (a day, two at the most) spell of cold weather. The MSM, particularly in the UK, have called a two week period of severe, unseasonable snow “a cold snap.”
July 19, 2013
I don’t speak Espanol well — un poco, solamente. … Director Sebastian Medina tells everyone to drive with caution … .
At 25 seconds, I THINK the announcer is saying that this snow is exceptional; the most in the last 45 years??
(I went to Youtube.com and used “Chile TV noticias nieve 2013” to find this video)
ESPANOL-ENGLISH TRANSLATION NEEDED.
August 25, 2013
This is a rather old trope, wouldn’t you say? That extremes of weather somehow invalidate one or the other hypothesis? Tell me again how this somehow renders invalid the fact Australia has literally been burning up the last few summers?
Your presentation is highly disingenuous; you know as well as many of us looking at climate that global warming/global climate change isn’t about palm trees in Boston. It’s about extremes of weather, and disruptions of climate over short time spans not previously seen.
Let’s consider your poster child here – Peru. Heavy snowfall in a nation that cuddles up to the equator. Tell me, is it falling in the Peruvian Amazon lowlands? Ah, just so, I thought not.
So, the issue is, not cold, but precipitation, and an unusual quantity of moisture being dumped at higher altitudes in the Andes. Fancy this thought… additional moisture requires more energy. Where might that come from?
Just one more:
July 19, 2013
*Snow*… in Sumatra?! … well, maybe in Sumatra, Montana…
http://www.usa.com/sumatra-mt-weather.htm
Rather improbable other than on mountaintops in Sumatra, Indonesia. *IF* *THEN*.
My search for news about snow in Indonesia came up surprisingly short.
Indeed, nice essay!
“… the fact Australia has literally been burning up the last few summers… .” (J. D. Allen)
Provide evidence of this “fact,” please. The many Australians who comment on WUWT have testified that this “fact” is largely propaganda.
It appears to me that: “Your
presentationpost is highly disingenuous.”*********************************************
The above article’s main point is that the main stream media is biased to report only exceptionally warm weather events, not cold ones. Your comment appears to confirm the author’s conclusion. Thanks for your demonstrative evidence (not that we needed any).
Just for reference. These are reasonably accurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Peru
Very early snow forcasted for Iceland the coming days.
http://en.vedur.is/
Southerly wind 3 to 10 m/s and rain in the south and west parts and heavy at times, but mainly dry in the east. Increasing northwest and west wind today, 15 to 23 m/s by afternoon in the northwest part and considerable or heavy rain, but snow above 150 to 300 meters above see level. 13 to 20 m/s in the southwest and rain, but sleet in the mountain areas. Mainly lighter wind in the east and rain until afternoon, but less precipitation by afternoon. Becoming colder, temperature 2 to 11 degrees C later today, coldest in the northwest but warmest in the east.
Forecast made 30.08.2013 01:03 GMT
Snow in Philippines — July 24, 2013
jdallen
Picture of it here
http://4myindonesia.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/the-first-time-occured-snow-storm-hits-west-sumatra/
Youtube here
Search snow in Indonesia
Most comments here reckon it’s a hoax
http://www.livinginindonesiaforum.org/showthread.php/39003-Indonesia-s-First-Recorded-Snowfall-Good-or-Bad-Thing
So it may well be something other than snow. As there are a large number of UK citizens living in that part of the world perhaps they’ll be good enough to post more information.