The money quote:
“With such extreme climatic events potentially becoming more common due to climate change…”
Maybe next week Nature will notice La Nina:
Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish
Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon.
Anna Petherick
With high Andean peaks and a humid tropical forest, Bolivia is a country of ecological extremes. But during the Southern Hemisphere’s recent winter, unusually low temperatures in part of the country’s tropical region hit freshwater species hard, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.
Scientists who have visited the affected rivers say the event is the biggest ecological disaster Bolivia has known, and, as an example of a sudden climatic change wreaking havoc on wildlife, it is unprecedented in recorded history.
“There’s just a huge number of dead fish,” says Michel Jégu, a researcher from the Institute for Developmental Research in Marseilles, France, who is currently working at the Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. “In the rivers near Santa Cruz there’s about 1,000 dead fish for every 100 metres of river.”
With such extreme climatic events potentially becoming more common due to climate change, scientists are hurrying to coordinate research into the impact, and how quickly the ecosystem is likely to recover.
The extraordinary quantity of decomposing fish flesh has polluted the waters of the Grande, Pirai and Ichilo rivers to the extent that local authorities have had to provide alternative sources of drinking water for towns along the rivers’ banks. Many fishermen have lost their main source of income, having been banned from removing any more fish from populations that will probably struggle to recover.
The blame lies, at least indirectly, with a mass of Antarctic air that settled over the Southern Cone of South America for most of July. The prolonged cold snap has also been linked to the deaths of at least 550 penguins along the coasts of Brazil and thousands of cattle in Paraguay and Brazil, as well as hundreds of people in the region.
Water temperatures in Bolivian rivers that normally register about 15 ˚C during the day fell to as low as 4 ˚C.
Hugo Mamani, head of forecasting at Senamhi, Bolivia’s national weather centre, confirms that the air temperature in the city of Santa Cruz fell to 4 ˚C this July, a low beaten only by a record of 2.5 ˚C in 1955.
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No doubt this sick NATURE writings is sad and makes my stomack sick.
But!
But the good thing about the global warming agenda is, that they have screamed, shouted and forced the global WARMING message out in every corner of the world.
Therefore, when they now talk about cooling as a result of CO2, far most peoble wont buy it.
When its cooling peoble will think: “Hey! I thought they said global warming!!”
Its too late for the warming team to save their behinds in case of cooling – fortunately.
K.R. Frank
Why is it only the over-educated propeller heads would accept an argument that record cold is proof of global warming? The average person would laugh anyone out of the room who made such a ridiculous statement.
The real devil is revealed!
Pamela Gray says:
August 28, 2010 at 1:05 pm
It all has to do with thier meaning of ‘study’.
(btw… snow level here in No. Ca 7-8000’….rained all night).
Somehow, I think they are studying how to word the opinion piece to promote warming in the face of cooling, and are oblivious to all else. So what if cold ran up and crossed the equator. Who cares about the record Antarctic Sea Ice. La Nina, what’s that?
Pass the Kool-Aid.
we need to take note of the SH winter land temps and compare them to the GISS temp anomalies when there are released…
So as the shift in cold moves to the northern hemisphere this coming winter, how many insulated shelters are being constructed in waterways for the survival of Manatees?
Piles driven, channel iron bolted on and fitted 4X8 sheets of Styrofoam insulated plywood prefabricated, that be slid down into place with clear plastic covers, to keep them from extinction?
Where is Green pieces or the Sierra clubb when the work needs to be done?
Green jobs creation would be where their funds should be being spent.
Speaking of rare events…. When I lived in Oregon, there was construction next door, and the surveyors placed a stake at the corner of our lot proclaiming that point the edge of a 150 year flood plain. This was a bit puzzling as we lived on a side hill at 500 feet above sea level. So I searched the regulations. It turns out that the figures used a 1% odds number, and the last flood at that level was the Missoula Deluges that occurred at the end of the last ice age, 15000 years ago.
Re: Richard Holle
“how many insulated shelters are being constructed in waterways for the survival of Manatees? ”
Dunno, have they built any new power plants?
JUNO BEACH, Fla., Dec. 27 /PRNewswire/ — The chilly temperatures of the
season traditionally herald the start of manatee viewing season at Florida
Power & Light Company’s Riviera power plant. The manatees, which seek a
temporary warm-water haven, gather near the plant’s discharge when the
temperatures dip below 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-chilly-temperatures-of-the-year-lure-manatees-to-fpls-riviera-power-plant-76340892.html
Visitors entering the manatee viewing area will be treated to a mural
showing the many initiatives that make up FPL’s environmental commitment. A
mural honoring manatees has been extended to include artist renderings of
other plant and animal species native to Florida. Panels showcase large
renderings of the loggerhead sea turtle and a reference to FPL’s involvement
in sea turtle conservation at the St. Lucie power plant. The American
Crocodile, which makes its home in the cooling canals at the Turkey Point
power plant, is also featured.
For centuries priests and Sharman’s have known about the convenience of extreme weather events.
Predicted an extreme weather event as evidence of the displeasure of the gods and sooner or later you will get an extreme weather event of one sort or another.
Which can then be taken as irrefutable evidence that you can communicate with the gods. From then on any of the local population that need to communicate with the gods can do so through you. Of course the gods always need sacrifice which you will pass on to them (less your commission)
Richard Holle
Aah Richard, don’t you know those guys don’t really spend their time on projects like you describe but spend their time condemning sportsmen and hunters who actually pay millions to support fishing and wildlife and preserving woods and fisheries.
They make me sick.
Curiousgeorge says: Who’s recorded history?
Bill Tuttle says: Anna Petherick’s.
Anna Petherick says: I worked as a science journalist for The Economist and had the good fortune to be able to do that pretty often. Because all of those articles are anonymous . . .
But she’s curiously shy about letting just anybody know what that recorded history is.
latitude says:
August 28, 2010 at 11:39 am
VANCOUVER — B.C. is reaping the biggest sockeye salmon return in nearly a century, just a year after one of the smallest returns on record.
Looks like the PDO multidecadal oscillation phase shift to cool.
Ref.: A Pacific interdecadal climate oscillation with impacts on salmon production (N. Mantua, S. Hare, et al 1997).
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~mantua/REPORTS/PDO/pdo_paper.html
Here’s the recent update on the sockeye salmon return and numbers from the Fraser River Panel: http://www.psc.org/NewsRel/2010/Announcement20.pdf
Excerpt: “Current run size assessments suggest that the total Fraser sockeye return this season is slightly over 30,000,000 fish (including 105,000 Early Stuart sockeye), which is the largest return since 1913.”
Marlene Anderson says:
August 28, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Why is it only the over-educated propeller heads would accept an argument that record cold is proof of global warming? The average person would laugh anyone out of the room who made such a ridiculous statement.
The other end of the spectrum would be politicians who likewise accepted such outrageous arguments.
From: Richard Holle on August 28, 2010 at 3:00 pm
There are other plans in the works. Since Climate Change will be increasing the frequency of Catastrophic Climatic Events, namely hurricanes, which will destroy the oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico causing massive oil spills thus further destruction of habitat, the manatees are to be evacuated from Florida. They’ll be sent up to the Chesapeake Bay, which Climate Change has already caused, or soon will cause it to become a nice warm safe habitat for them.
The money for it has already been appropriated, it was on page 679 of the Stimulus Bill. Granted they’ve already spent 2/3 of it on studies, research, and conferences in Cancun (near the problem), but 1/5 of the money was firmly set aside at the start for lobbying Congress for the necessary funds to continue the studying, researching, and conferencing thus you know the project will get done.
This of course is part of the Obama administration’s amazing commitment to adapting to the realities of our Climate Change-ravaged world. This was also evidenced by supporting the development of citrus groves in New Jersey, pg. 938.
After the completion of this and other initiatives, Florida will have neither cute fluffy manatees, nor citrus groves, NASA will have no need of space launch facilities in Florida (or anywhere else), yet Florida will still be capable of voting Republican. Thus having only one sole remaining value to the US, Florida will be utilized by DC to settle an old debt by returning it to Mexico. All of this is scheduled to be completed during the first administration of President Michelle Obama, subject to Change.
“The blame lies, at least indirectly</b?, with a mass of Antarctic air that settled over the Southern Cone of South America for most of July."
No, no… I’d say squarely. Now AGW might be indirectly responsible for the extreme cold, but there’s not a whit of evidence for that.
I guess they forgot to type LOUDER and S-L-O-W-E-R because I certainly didn’t react with the appropriate alarm.
[/sarcastic contempt]
Sorry, folks. Gary Haq hacked me off a few threads ago with his assumption that one loses critical thinking skills with age, and I’m still a little cranky about it.
H.R. says:
August 28, 2010 at 4:43 pm
“”that one loses critical thinking skills with age,””
Double speak for the justification of the use of the term “Old codger”
=Feisty old fart who still remembers the last five or six major wars, and the results of at least 15 presidential elections.
Once more, we need to quote Professor K.Abdusamatov, when asked about GW: “That´s Hollywood Science”.
Shame on all those “scientists”.
Enjoyed reading this humorous thread!
However, the discussion of the semantic games being played in the press, journals and throughout popular culture relevant to weather/climate reminded me of someone. His name was Winston Smith. If you recall, he was the main character from Orwell’s dystopian novel. Winston worked on ‘improving’ the dictionary, the Newspeak dictionary. His job was not to chronicle the ever increasing diversity of the language, but rather to limit the language in the pursuit of narrowing the possible extent of discourse.
Words are powerful. The warmists know this. As their tangled web continues to unravel, they know that their big lie cannot continue to be perpetrated without increased control of the discourse. It’s not enough to have a defacto monopoly over the opinion cartel, the language must also be manipulated to reduce the potential for us to have ‘impure thoughts’ or to accidentally become aware of the contradictions. As a result:
Warm is warm. Cool is unwarm. Cold is super plus unwarm.
‘Unprecedented’ describes any event which has not been observed within recent memory.
‘Denial’ is disbelief in something that doesn’t exist.
Cold air from Antarctica (in SH winter) is an ‘extreme’ event.
‘Extreme’ applies to any weather event whose measurable properties deviate perceptibly from the long term average.
Weather is climate, except when it’s not.
The basic building block of all life on earth is a pollutant.
Anthropogenic global warming cannot be falsified, thus climate change is science.
After all, 1984 was 26 years ago!
Richard Holle says:
August 28, 2010 at 3:00 pm
So as the shift in cold moves to the northern hemisphere this coming winter, how many insulated shelters are being constructed in waterways for the survival of Manatees?
Piles driven, channel iron bolted on and fitted 4X8 sheets of Styrofoam insulated plywood prefabricated, that be slid down into place with clear plastic covers, to keep them from extinction?
Where is Green pieces or the Sierra clubb when the work needs to be done?
Green jobs creation would be where their funds should be being spent.
Surely you jest, Richard!! See here: The extremists/propagandists LIVE for catastrophe!
Without said catastrophe, they would have to create one. So then, the manatees must suffer in order that the extremists/propagandists have some blood to dance in, and to slather all over their bodies in an obscene orgy of delight.
Remember: It’s not about climate; rather, it’s all about people-control and political power.
Those fish still look good to me. Let’s have a block party and a fish fry!
Those that push an agenda regarding ‘climate change’ do so without regards to facts or supposed facts that can be seemingly overwhelming to the majority that pay no attention to the subtleties that surround them.
The Environmentalist has smoke and mirrors working in their favor and until those slight of hand tricks can be exposed for whom they serve, ‘climate change’ and those that support it, will continue to exploit that majority.
The most effective means in order to expose those that support ‘climate change’ would be to take the matter to court.
Al Gore said there is no debate, yet a debate rages on in homes, in the streets, and in the office place.
The true debate isn’t about climate change at all. The debate is how long will it take for the matter to be settled in a court of law.
A trial for … “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Let Lincolns words reverberate to the highest courts of our land and put this matter to rest once and for all and expose those that would had taken our liberties away through fraud and deceit.
Leaders throughout history have taken up similar causes because of their faith and determination to see righteousness prevail.
Understanding true leadership principles is essential for success in any endeavor worth pursuing.
If the leaders of todays governments had felt that those skeptical of the nature of ‘climate change’ had defrauded its people, trust me, they would have had already found their fate in some high court.
Yet the voice of the people go unheard by the very people who had sworn to protect them.
How long will such an injustice, such that ‘climate change’ is, continue before that injustice bankrupts nations and forever puts our very freedoms in the hands that would bond us to the notion we are at fault for the changing of the seasons?
I say as long as it takes until at least one true leader emerges that supports it people and is willing to represent the very people that they entrusted to do so, because this is one endeavor worthy of pursuing.
Good Day !
IPCC and supports cna have the best of both world with the “Climate Change” label.
Don’t have to account for being incorrect!
@wwf: Are YOU saying that a warmer atmosphere will not make the poles warmer?
We’re saved!
Vancouver Sun
August 27, 2010
Bountiful salmon run reminds us we know little about the fishery
Excerpt:
“It does suggest, however, that all of the apocalyptic warnings about the effect of global warming, pollution and sea lice from fish farming on our wild salmon have been somewhat premature.”
Ya think? ROFL!
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Bountiful+salmon+reminds+know+little+about+fishery/3448952/story.html
Alligators in Bolivia, WT…?