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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jdallen says:
…..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?
>>> Answer:
The Sun
Anthony, I do believe you have discovered a new form of statistical sampling bias, based on the ‘investigators’ limited language skills. Cereza-picking…
jdallen says:
August 30, 2013 at 12:02 am
Tell me again how this somehow renders invalid the fact Australia has literally been burning up the last few summers?
What nonsense.
in 1974-75, following lush vegetation growth due to heavy rainfall in the previous two years, over 117 million ha or 15% of the total land area of the continent was burnt in central Australia during the fire season
That’s about 10,000 times greater area than the fires of the last 3 years combine. And note that rain is the main cause of bushfires in Australia.
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@ur momisugly.nsf/0/ccb3f2e90ba779d3ca256dea00053977?OpenDocument
Rule two of climate ‘science ‘ the dependant factor if something is weather or climate is if this event can be used to support ‘the cause ‘ , not its time scale nor it nature .
For example a one day flood can be weather if it cannot be sold as ‘cause supporting ‘ but the same event ‘climate’ if it can be sold as ‘cause supporting’
Like much of climate ‘science’ what matters is not the facts, but its ‘usefulness’ in keeping the AGW train on track.
http://www.sail-world.com/UK/North-West-Passage-blocked-with-ice—yachts-caught/113788
It is stated that there are 22 ships caught in the Arctic NW Passage due to early freeze up. Anybody seen this reported by MSM??
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g7fDKeZXiSU&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dg7fDKeZXiSU
Philippines snow. Ha!
jdallen. at 12:07 …
Its so burning hot in here Australia that we will never see snow in the Aussie Alps again. Just like they predicted.
Regarding early freeze up of the NWP… More disinformation. The melt season is slowing, but still has three weeks, and temperatures haven’t been vaguely close to cold enough for a refreeze. Best explanation is drift ice, broken off of the shattered polar cap. *If* in fact the site you reference is reporting correctly.
How rare was the snowfall? It seems there was a similar dump in 2011.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=51312
Maybe there’s a pattern … aha …
http://civdes.uchile.cl/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/NIEVE-y-olas-de-fr%C3%ADo-en-Sudamérica-y-el-DESIERTO-DE-ATACAMA-durante-invierno-del-2010-y-2011-Romero-y-Mendonca.pdf
Looks like the Atacama may get quite a lot more snow, now that the planet is cooling again and more La Ninas are likely.
@A Crooks … Oh?
http://skicentral.com/australia-skireport.html
I know that I’m lazy to ask but some time ago the Guardian had an article about how some regions of South America were becoming depopulated because of the increasing cold. I seem to remember that they referenced mountain villages in ?Bolivia. Can anyone goive an update on this?
jdallen says stuff about Australia. Heavens man? I worked up in North West Queensland many decades ago as teenage jackaroo when the area was just recovering from a long drought when station owners had to shoot 100,000’s cattle because there wasn’t enough feed. And you are bitching about a couple warm summers. Get a life or piss off!
I have no access to youtube on this machine but here is a video which purports to be about snowfall in Indonesia on 9-10 August
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3OYy4k8DHg
And another here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUufU_W-qew
No idea if it’s real or not
jdallen on August 30, 2013 at 12:02 am
…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.”
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Sorry, no. AGW was (is?) about “warming” ( that’s what the ‘w’ stands for). Only recently have they switched the language to be about extemes because as we all know, there isn’t any global warming. It’s flat for the past 17 years. And yes, it was about palm trees in Boston. They have predicted the migration of species north as a result of AGW, along with every other prediction.
I agree with this article. Every news I watch hypes up any fire, heat wave, or drought and completely ignores news about the cold. Did the MSM point out that this Aug. in Philadelphia was the first time in recorded history the month didn’t see temps above 90 at all? Unusual. Yet if it’s 90 for three days in a row it’s constant wall to wall news coverage about the excessive heat wave killing the helpless.
There is definitely a warm bias in the MSM, and that’s what this article is helping point out.
@Janice Moore, Philip Bradley:
August 30, 2013 at 12:16 am
“… the fact Australia has literally been burning up the last few summers… .” (J. D. Allen)
Yep – “literally” burning up may be a reference to the inevitable result of increasingly poor rural land management over recent years, leading to massive build-up of fuel load, non-maintenance of firebreaks etc. Needs to read Bill Gammage: “The Biggest Estate on Earth”.
Or, If he/she is local, maybe they believe the “Angry Summer” nonsense? When it was hot down south, up here at 19 degrees, it was a pleasant 32 C and 60RH most of the time. They may
subscribe to the “Brisbane Line” eg there is nothing north of it.
jdallen presents the clearest example of the response of Warmistas to irrefutable proof of lower global temperatures. It’s not Global Warming anymore, it’s Climate Change, no, no, it’s Climate Disruption, yes, that’s it, it’s Climate Disruption, that’s what ir is!
Here’s a YouTube video on the subject
“additional moisture requires more energy. Where might that come from?” Answer: It comes from where all the energy comes. It comes from the sun.
Melting glaciers, yet again they get it wrong
This from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23849332
They sort of fail to mention that it must have been much warmer when those things were buried in ice. Same with the equatorial glacier retreat in Peru, vegetation being uncovered is “tropical” and thus clearly was much warmer when iced over quickly.
The Philippines snow, fall out from a volcano, a internet viral scam, well exposed.
The meme being well and truly exposed is that MSM reports each and every heat wave or flood event but not snow or cold events.
JD Allan about your NW Passage critique, I suggest you look and think before commenting. The article Imposted shows a map from Environment Canada? Do youmthinkmthey made it up?
As for Arctic temps you’re wrong there too.
Here’s this summer’s temps above 80 degrees latitude.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
All below average..
I know someone who is going to be really pissed off when world temperatures fall!
As I commented here previously the very very highly significant increase in Antarctic ice extent that is now beginning to look more like a semi-permanent trend could possibly be beginning to affect the incursion of cold air masses into southern hemisphere continents such as South Especially if the vortex force is directed northwards. The COLA map showed the last cold air mass extending nearly to the other side of the physical EQUATOR (note the climate equator not same as physical equator. BTW I live in South Amertica and can assure you that in the Atacama it never rains so snow there would be completely an historic event by any standard. Looks like JDAllen is just another poorly educated Australian Climate Scientist LOL
jorgekafkazar says:
August 29, 2013 at 11:50 pm
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.”
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By definition? Whose? Cold snaps in Canada can last weeks. Mind you, when we refer to a cold snap , we’re usually talking about below zero Farhrenheit temps.. Similarly for the US central and northern plains.
More discussions about weather by people who don’t understand the difference between it and climate.
urggh, Fahrenheit. Preview only works when you use it. 🙁
Your first paragraph is absolutely fair comment. People certainly will get a distorted view.
Here are some news stories since 2009 which is a sure sign of global cooling. / SARC
I’m sure many people missed these.