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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Mac the Knife Since the Chukchi Sea rarely exceeds 150 feet in depth, sea ice formation should be more rapid here and in similar shallow areas of the Arctic Ocean, when ambient air temps fall below 28.8F as they have now. While ice may be pushed around and consolidated into thicker pack ice by the prevailing winds, the shallow basins should be the incubators for new sea ice.
It is a bit more complicated. Those shallow sea shelves often have warm Atlantic and Pacific waters forced nearer the surface and thus delay heating. Polynya are often associated with these shallow seas and in the Laptev Sea there is enough open water polynya to sustain the Laptev Walrus throughout the winter. Open water polynya are however sea ice factories as the winds blow away newly formed ice and providing room for more ice to form.
oops shoulld have said “delay cooling”
I have just received my monthly issue of National Geographic with the main story being “Rising Seas”. The essence of their alarmist propaganda is “IF All the ICE Melted”? Well what if it doesn’t but then what if it does? But then by definition we are still in an Ice Age (poles are not ice free). But based on solar cycles and minimums, no warming for almost 2 decades, the biggest fear might be another solar minimum when millions will die due to the colder weather, reduced crop production etc. Coastline changes are the least of our worries over the next few hundred years. BTW: reports have it that Scotland is being elevated by platonic shifts and that the south of England is sinking. More Thames barriers maybe?
Janice Moore says:
August 30, 2013 at 5:56 pm
If it’s important to you, I’ll translate roughly:
“Rain and snow continue falling in Arequipa. Rain and snow have persisted in the higher zones of the Arequipa region since July 22 due to the continued cold. Because of the accumulation of eight centimeters of snow in the area, Senamhi Director Sebastian Medina recommends driving with caution.
This year is exceptional for the constant snow, which has not been recorded for 35 to 40 years in the region of Arequipa and on several nearby volcanoes.”
(After this is a cold WX forecast.)
To paraphrase Sterling Hayden in Dr. Strangelove, “How does 35-40 years jibe with your PDO?”
Barcelona is only pronounced with a “th” in Castilian, not in Catalan or Latin American Spanish. Since it’s a Catalan city, I use the sibilant. Same goes for Ibiza. While studying in England, I traveled with an American girl to Barcelona. She showed off her excellent Spanish by lisping with the best of them. I asked a worker at the zoo please to say the name of his city, which he did, as I hoped he would, in Catalan. She said that’s not how they said it in “The Bobo”, the worst of all Peter Sellers &/or Britt Ekland movies, which is saying something.
Newsel says:
August 30, 2013 at 7:27 pm
I think you’ll find that Scotland is rising & southern England sinking not because of “platonic” shifts, but post-glacial rebound. Northern Britain was weighed down by ice for about 100,000 years, so has been rebounding for the past several thousand years from having been depressed by this now melted mass.
IMO Scotland & England don’t have a Platonic relationship, but take turns screwing each other over. I think you meant plate tectonics, but plates aren’t why the north of the island is rising & south falling. But I like platonic.
BTW, ice is also responsible for making Britain an island:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7151/full/nature06018.html
Dear Newsel,
You may be interested to read this thread: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/20/national-geographics-junk-science-how-long-will-it-take-for-sea-level-rise-to-reach-midway-up-the-statue-of-liberty/.
Perhaps, you will join the many WUWT commenters who are now former Nat. Geo. subscribers (many gave up on that pro-CAGW, Fantasy Science, periodical years ago).
I hope that you can find some good things to read wherever you are!
Take care,
Janice
Thank you, Milodon Harlani, for translating. It was kind of you to bother to answer my request. How wonderful for you that you know two (at least) languages.
Janice
@ur momisugly Newsel, don’t feel too bad about the little mistake of “platonics” (chuckle), others have made worse. For instance, “plate teutonics.” See, e.g., http://www.cram.com/cards/theory-of-plate-teutonics-3018958.
#(:))
Janice,
BTW: nice to meet someone with a sense of humour…..
Hi Janice, thanks for the slack….it’s Friday evening. Just relaxing…..:-)
Janice Moore says:
August 30, 2013 at 8:21 pm
You’re welcome. I live in Chile half the year.
At my age I can’t speak & understand adequately more than two languages, which Gracias a Dios are all I need these days. When I try to speak German, Russian, French or Dari, which I’ve needed at various prior times in my life, Spanish comes out. Or I start haltingly in one of the others & end up in Spanish, my first & still most useful foreign tongue.
Reading knowledge is another matter. Knowing Latin & at least one modern Western Romance language makes reading any of the others pretty easy. English is helpful, too, since its vocabulary is about 40% Latinate (French, Latin & other Romance languages), despite being genetically a Germanic tongue. Could never read or write Dari in its native script, except as Tajik, written in Russian Cyrillic, or transliterated into the Roman alphabet.
Nor do I regret a year of college Homeric Greek. The ability to sing the Iliad to the tune of “For a Duck May Be Somebody’s Mother” (dactylic hexameter) has come in if not handy, then useful or entertaining over the years.
Re Plate Teutonics, Wegener was after all a Teuton.
A pleasure to meet you, too, Newsel. Have a lovely weekend.
Milodon, what a joy to read of your rich store of education and life experiences. Thank you, so much, for sharing.
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Speaking of a sense of humor….. heh, heh, 😉
It’s HOMER singing the tune that inspired the Iliad. Mm, hm. (with Moses’ father-in-law)
Australia certainly gets good coverage of anything to do with ‘heat’.
Apparently Brisbane, and other Australian cities, may have had their ‘warmest’ winters ‘on record’ which you can read about in MSM reports (if you can be bothered) by searching on “Brisbane warmest winter on record”.
In the mean time check current ski conditions at http://www.snowatch.com.au/
Simon on August 30, 2013 at 6:30 pm
OMG it’s worse than we thought!
Quite a bit of snow on top of Table Mountain as well.
This essay shows us serveral non-neglectable facts:, an interesting article with new information, the media is selective and one-sided, global warning is not a ghost and our solution should not be a ghost as well.
Last night, on the local Fox News broadcast on TV, they covered the South-American snows.
Simon says:
August 30, 2013 at 6:30 pm
New Zealand & Australia have indeed been warmer than usual this winter. South Africa started out cold, but I haven’t checked to see how the winter has progressed. South America has suffered cold & warm spells, but generally has been snowier than usual, as noted in this post.
The trend for the SH however appears colder, following the terrible winter of 2010, if not starting previously. I know 2012 was bad, also, requiring cancellation of at least one Antarctic scientific expedition, & changes in Cape Horn cruises. If the Antipodes escapes this trend, good on you, mate!
Andrew.
“OMG it’s worse than we thought!”
Thanks for your concern. The Drought last summer certainly was for our farmers.
My experience in the mountains of Argentina and Chile is that the temperature can change rapidly and significantly and is usually associated with a high wind. A sudden warming is no problem but a sudden cooling can be serious. There are many fatal examples:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_Antuco.
Per the article “”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.””
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The MSM has perpetrated the same strategy against Congress. For close to two years any mention of Congress came with a negative slant inserted in the message. Then, in the last year, the MSM has gone extreme in their portrayal of Congress. There is a huge flow such that the most extreme voices want to see Congress ‘changed’, completely neutered might be a better word. Article after article repeats phrases such as ‘do-nothing Congress’, ‘blame Congress’, ‘blame climate change on Congress’, ‘blame our money woes on Congress’, etc etc. All blame, all of our troubles lead to Congress. For everything! The message is certainly effective, but I wonder to what extent.
Simon says:
August 31, 2013 at 12:42 pm
As a former follower of world wheat prices, it has often seemed to me that drought is a semi-permanent feature of Australian climate or WX.
I don’t know why Oz & NZ don’t seem to be participating in the general cooling of the SH. Maybe the cold currents off the west coasts of both southern Africa & South America have something to do with it. And the Andes surely affect the Amazon & Patagonia.
Janice Moore says:
August 30, 2013 at 12:18 am
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Nice job finding all the snow stories. Those are handy links to have. They will be useful for dropping into certain conversations at the appropriate moment.
Gold Minor!
Thank you. I’m pleased to know you found them helpful. It is always a major bummer to take all that time to find videos and have no one say anything.
Say, I sure hope you come back and read my reply, here. I have wanted to tell you I was concerned about you for those several weeks you weren’t posting. I hoped (and prayed, too) all was well. I pray all is as you wish it to be in your living situation.
Glad to see you posting regularly again.
Take care,
Janice
August 30, 2013 at 2:21 am
Melting glaciers, yet again they get it wrong
This from the BBC
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I see that they no longer allow comments. Ahh, the BBC bastion of truth.
mrmethane says:
August 30, 2013 at 8:25 am
You can be certain that humanitarian principles will outweigh political or financial ones, if it’s possible for the Cdn Coast Guard to get an icebreaker or other means into play to rescue the impetuous greenies from the ice. Their yachts and rowboats – maybe not.
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A group of the sailboats are underway for Cape Bathurst. The weather is favorable for the moment. Even the one rowboat on the west side of the Cape is now making a run for the Cape in the hopes of making it to Cambridge Bay. Charles Hedrich has already rowed 845 miles. He is now underway. There is a US Coast Guard ice breaker, the Healy , which is positioned close to Cape Bathurst.