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
That is good news, Gold Minor. Thank you for telling us.
Thank you for all your comments. Snow has fallen to over a meter high (nieve de mas uno metro)
causing great problems (causa graves problemas) for miners all over South America.
http://www.noticiasbolivianas.com/bolivia/la-paz/el-diario/el-diario-portada/101774-metro-y-medio-de-nieve-causa-problemas-a-centros-mineros
Even for people living in Canada, very heavy snowfall (intensas nevadas) reaching more than one meter high, is considered to be a big problem. But have the MSM payed any attention to it? No, we wouldn’t know about it if we did not look for a local Bolivian news agency in Spanish language.
The cold in South America continues. From tomorrow (a partir de mañana) temperatures in Peru are expected to drop till minus 20 degrees Celsius (registrará un descenso de la temperatura, hasta los 20 grados Celsius bajo cero).
http://www.rpp.com.pe/2013-09-01-senamhi-advierte-temperaturas-de-hasta-20-grados-en-sierra-sur-noticia_627032.html
@JDAllan, “snow falling in the Peruvian Amazon Low lands, I think not”
Me neither, I always was under the impression the Amazon started in the (High) Andes and flowed East to the South Atlantic through Brazil rather then down to the Peruvian “low lands” on the Pacific but since I do not have “google earth” I could be wrong here, can somebody help me out?
I am very grateful to Anthony Watts for the opportunity to have my guest essay on his website.
Also I would like to mention Robert Felix, who has reported again and again about the present bitterly cold winter in South America. Because reporters of some of the MSM that are not on the CAGW bandwagon read websites like WUWT and IceAgeNow, they started reporting about this subject. And finally the BBC started to have stories about it, because the other news agencies had the story and they could not stay behind. Here is a recent video showing the present situation in Puno, Peru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLV0XtAWps I hope a lot of people will watch it.
Thank you, Argiris Diamantis. I hope many people will watch it, too. It is heartwrenching.
Here you go, Tobias (and me, too!) — re: yours at 11:23am, 9/1/13 —
Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/18722/Amazon-River
@ur momisugly Janice Moore / sept 2/ Thank you so much, bookmarked, printed and copied. Sat back and thought about a lot of conversations on not only this site and this particular subject but how easy it seems to me it is to get information completely warped. Again thanks, (my Grand kids as well), I stuck the hard copies together with a 1974 Atlas and also together with an Encyclopedia of the same vintage
Dear Tobias,
You are very welcome. LOL, if I don’t look over a world atlas every so often (I SHOULD do it every year!), it is AMAZING where my mind puts some countries in relation to each other. I’ve finally stopped picturing Germany as much farther south of where it is (don’t know why, just got that in my head somehow). I had Massachusetts (USA) south of New York for a long time. And those are just two examples. It’s weird, too, for I can easily memorize directions and a basic map and am rarely lost.
Well, enjoy those grandkids. They are blessed with a kind (your note’s tone and that you bothered to write to me tells that), intellectually honest, conscientious, grandpa. You are leaving a priceless legacy to the world: those children.
Sincerely and with warm regards,
Janice
I am blushing Janice (LoL),
And about atlases changing? As a Dutchman?, that is soooo easy to do!! Just put up a dike and wait for a week or so, (LOL) and watch the world wide sea level drop or is that rising ?? Okay that was a bit too much it could actually take 4 weeks LOL), (BTW I wish NY was north of Mass.)
Tobias (at 11:12pm). Laugh-out-loud. You can always tell a Dutchman…..
by his great sense of humor! #(:))
Janice when you are born and brought up 30 feet below sea level you BETTER have a sense of humor
I didn’t know it was that bad. We read nothing about this in our newspapers, we see nothing about this on the television. The big media are brainwashing us into believing that the world is getting warmer, but that is not the truth. It is good that there are people like mister Diamantis who draw our attention to this terrible news.