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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I should have said since 2008.
There is a sceptical website that is dedicated to news reports of cold and snow around the world. Well worth a look as it puts alarmists heatwaves into perspective. It’s just the weather and not the climate.
http://iceagenow.info/
Brrrrrr. It’s worse than we thought!
Janice Moore says:
Yes. The constant snowfall is unprecedentele for the last 30~40 years, 8 cms (a little more than 3 inches) of snow, volcanos recovering snow cover, in Arequipa city temperatures oscillating between minus 8~minus 23 ºC, due to fluctuating overcast
Maybe the “usual” weather is “unusual”. The first three years I lived in Michigan I heard a constant refrain that this wasn’t usual weather, so I decided that Kalamazoo only had unusual weather: unusually hot, unusually cold, unusually cool, unusually warm and unusually average. It might be the same for other places.
Weather reports in the US for the rest of the planet are going to be spotty at best. It would have to be a big storm to pique reporting interest. Snow in the Ande’s? I’m willing to bet a majority of the folks who watch the news couldn’t tell you what side of the continent Peru is on and would only recognize them as folks who wear blankets and have funny hats. Besides, all of South America is tropical rain forest that we need to save, isn’t it? If the audience is geographically illiterate why should the news carry anything but really extreme events? Besides, I’m willing to bet that the Australian readers couldn’t tell me if the weather in Richmond, VA, has been warmer or cooler than normal this summer and Richmond weather wouldn’t be newsworthy unless we get hit by a big hurricane.
Not surprised at all that the media didn’t report snow in Peru.
Source please. If you are going to make an extraordinary claim back it up.
Sunny South Africa also go some of the whites stuff. This morning!!!
Yesterday a man died in South Africa due to the cold snap according to the S. African media. A second man was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
The UK and US media have rushed in droves to cover this dire situation.
In 2009 the cold weather in Peru killed 250 children. 2009 was a bad year in Peru. Imagine if these same children had died in a heatwave.
Jdallen, let me remind you of what they said about warmer winters and lack of snow due to global warming. I helped write about half of it up. You can see that the climate scientists quoted did not know what they were talking about.
http://notrickszone.com/2013/04/04/climate-science-humiliated-earlier-model-prognoses-of-warmer-winters-now-todays-laughingstocks/
Image two. That grader isn’t going to work in snow. It needs chains.
Sea surface temperatures in the Northwest Passage are about -1.0C right now because it is about 50% covered in ice which has stayed solid throughout the summer.
Resolute Bay, which is right in the middle of the main Passage channel, has not got above 0.0C as a daily high for nearly two weeks now with -5.0Cs to -7.0Cs as a daily low so it is certainly refreezing now.
Way above my technical skills.
Year without a summer – (wikipedia)1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F),[2] resulting in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.[3][4] It is believed that the anomaly was caused by a combination of a historic low in solar activity with a volcanic winter event, the latter caused by a succession of major volcanic eruptions capped by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, in the Dutch East Indies.
What was the California Mediterranean valley temperatures like in that year? Climate vs weather? (ending of the Little Ice Age)
“Tell me again how this somehow renders invalid the fact Australia has literally been burning up the last few summers?”
For the benefit of O/S readers (and perhaps some locals), the “hot angry summer” BS was a fabrication. Central Oz did have a hot fortnight – hot enough for the corrupt BoM to invent new temp scales with new colours which (of course) were never used as no records were set. SYD did have 2 hot days – one which was 0.16C hotter than the 1972 record, well within UHI ranges. Basically, we had a hot angry 12 hour period, in the middle of a wet, mild summer in which (contrary to perception of Sydney) saw just 3 days reach 32C.
In between the pair of 40’s, it barely exceeded 25 – about the same temp as we get in late winter! Of course, the warmies were all over today’s beautiful late winter day too.
Good coverage of cold events can be found here:
http://www.iceagenow.info
Very impressive and entertaining website.
At above 80 degrees it’s the coldest on the DMI record going back to 1958. It never got above freezing (0c) all summer. Why didn’t the media mention that instead of a drifting video cam?
CORRECTION to my last comment.
What I meant to say was it never went above average.
You need to read up on Australian climate and history. Show me the worsening trends (peer reviewed going back 30 years at least).
The above post is about the weather and not the climate. Your rant is also about the weather. Show me the un-fabricated evidence.
Did I hear the North West Passage from jdallen?
It’s blocking up with ice and some people have had to abandon their vessels.
http://www.sail-world.com/USA/North-West-Passage-blocked-with-ice%E2%80%94yachts-caught/113788
Arctic sea ice extent could death spiral at anytime – but for now, at least, it’s looking better than the previous 4 years.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
All,
Has anyone seen the recent massive die off of alpacas in Peru due to low temperatures?
http://www.peruviantimes.com/28/peru-declares-state-of-emergency-in-puno-as-temperatures-drop/20080/
JDAllen says: @ur momisugly 12:07am:
You want proof that it snows in Sumatra. Here it is:
http://4myindonesia.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/the-first-time-occured-snow-storm-hits-west-sumatra/
Merrick says:
August 30, 2013 at 6:41 am
Hey, does that mean my Alpaca-wool pullover won’t work below Zero C?
Bob Greene wrote on August 30, 2013 at 3:50 am:
“Maybe the “usual” weather is “unusual”. The first three years I lived in Michigan I heard a constant refrain that this wasn’t usual weather, so I decided that Kalamazoo only had unusual weather: unusually hot, unusually cold, unusually cool, unusually warm and unusually average. It might be the same for other places.” [snip]
Just for interest, in the 20 years that I’ve been back in New Brunswick, one summer saw no rain for 7 weeks and another summer (much of) it was as if a line had been drawn across the province with the north having lovely summer weather while we in the south looked out our chilly or wet windows at what we were getting. It can be fine weather into November some years, but one year the snow started in October and the ground was never clear until the following spring. And the level of the St. John River (a mile wide here) can vary three feet between a dry and a wet summer. The water level has been the highest that I have seen in the 20 years here.
The local warmists prattle on about global warming, rising sea levels, etc., anyway, disregarding the great variation in weather / climate that is put in front of them.
The Olde Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a colder-than-usual winter. We’ll see.
IanM
Mark says: @ur momisugly August 29, 2013 at 11:10 pm
…. Any similar reports from Southern Africa or Indonesia?
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Yes, You can go to Ice Age Now for a listing by paging through all the news on cold snaps.
“They are inclined to believe that global warming is happening because this message is repeated over and over again in the MSM.”
Recently , a website that I read posted an article that listed 22 propaganda methods. Here is method 13 of the 22.
13. Volume. This is related to Coordination (below), it is merely a deluge of the same story line everywhere, until it becomes dominant, and the media’s view of it becomes the dominant view. The mass media loves this one because it can make any story “true” even if it isn’t. The mass medias tend to follow each other and you will often find that all the “news” stories about a given current event seem to draw a similar conclusion about it. When you notice this, just ask yourself if it’s probable that, in a nation of nearly 300 million, no one has a legitimate opposing opinion. This is why the traditional mass media does not like the Internet, where convincing facts or opinions that contradict the mass media truth can get into circulation. Police states (like China) particularly hate this. The full list is found at http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20130826.aspx
jdallen says: @ur momisugly 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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There is a bit of a problem. It is a COLDER earth that has the weather extremes and not a warmer Earth. Since climate scientists insist that the Arctic is warming FASTER than the rest of the earth, there would be a decrease in the thermal gradient that produces bad weather.
OOPS, Seems this year the DMI temperature in the Arctic was cooler than normal all summer long…. And the Arctic sea ice is back within the 2 sigma limits of normal variation at the end of the melt season. (2 sigma limits designate the area around the mean where there is no significant difference between the reading and the mean at 95% confidence.)
jdallen says:
August 30, 2013 at 12:18 am
Just for reference. These are reasonably accurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Peru
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WIKI??? Home of the Connelly control trolls? HA HA HA Ha ha ROTFLMAO.
Wiki is NOT a good source.