David DuByne writes: Early Snows & Lost Grain Tonnage Central Asia
Ural Mountains (Oct 03), USA Crop losses (Oct 11), Ukraine (Oct 22), Grain fields of Northern Kazakhstan snow and frost. As snows arrive earlier with a cooling phase on Earth, grain harvests and planting will be affected.
This video highlights such events during October 2014 in Central Asia.
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Global Warming has melted the ice caps which makes the cold seek a new home, ravaging humanity. This has been proven by climate science computer models; doubting it is non-violent extremism and therefore punishable under proposed laws in the UK and the EU (google Theresa May).
Or in other words : When you’re not demented you better pretend to be or it’s the locker for you!
Some have said timing is everything.
In Washington State (USA), at about the same latitude as Kazakhstan, harvesting of wheat is a mid-summer activity. In mid-September planting for the next crop is completed. By the end of October the masters of the soil have gone to Arizona or New Mexico for a relaxing winter.
Tree crops (think apples) are in, corn in, potatoes in, carrots in. Wine grapes are now fermenting.
So, is this Kazakhstan late harvest a normal thing? That is, is the growing season with October harvest a function of the normal weather? Is this 2014 season slowed by natural causes?
Another possibility is that there are not sufficient machines to get the crop harvested in a more timely manner.
OT, perhaps. The Ural Mountains are really the boundary between western Asia and Europe north of the Caucasus. They only look like they are in central Asia. The Yamal Peninsula, notorious for its tree rings, is located in western Asia immediately east of the geographic demarcation between Europe and Asia at the northern end of the Urals.
Kazakhstan isn’t that northerly either. Between the same latitudes as northern England to central Spain.
Wheat prices are not far off 5 year lows.
http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/wheat.aspx?timeframe=10y
Wheat production 2014/15 predicted to be an all time record.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-25/world-wheat-production-forecast-raised-on-eu-to-ukraine.html
“As snows arrive earlier with a cooling phase on Earth”
Meanwhile down here in the Southern Hemisphere we’re having record breaking heat…
Southern Queensland has sweltered through some of the hottest weather ever recorded in October.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/october-temperature-records-fall-as-southern-queensland-bakes-through-heat-wave/170208
Many of the El Nino-like conditions are here now, both in Australia and in the US South-west desert.
This is despite the fact that officially El Nino has not yet happened.
Dear author: Thankyou for great work, very intereting.
A Tip, i hope you understand where im going:
Chryospheres graphs for “the nine seas”: Both the black and the red graphs are in fact this year.
The black is absolute vallues. The red is anomaly this year in comparison with the reference period.
It means that anomalies in the summertime also this year where below normal in many places.
But that will change 😉
I hope you know why im writing this to you.
K.R. Frank Lansner
There is no doubt that winters have been getting colder in many parts of the world for some 17 years now . According to NOAA data, the trend of GLOBAL LAND and OCEAN WINTER TEMPERATURE ANOAMLIES has been declining since 1998 at 0.6 C /decade. So has the WINTER TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES for the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE declined at 0.11C /decade since 1998. The trend of WINTER TEMPERATURE ANOAMLIES for CONTIGUOUS US declined at 1.79 F/decade since 1998 . The WINTER TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES declined from an average of + 2.6 C during 1998-2000 to -0.4C by 2014 winter , a cooling of average winter temperature anomalies of almost 3 degrees. I see this pattern continuing until 2035/2045 as the oceans enter their cool phase as they did 1880-1910 and again 1945-1975. The pattern of global and regional cooling starts during the winter first, then spring and fall and finally the summer. We are already seeing winter, spring and fall cooling in North America.
This coming winter will be cold in North America but also Asia and Europe this time.
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. The WINTER TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES declined from an average of + 2.6 C during 1998-1990 to -0.4C by 2014 winter , a cooling of average winter temperature anomalies of almost 3 degrees. This refers to the Canadian National winter temperature anomalies . Canadian winter temperature departures from 1961-1990 averages have been declining since 1998.
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Something larger is scaring the climate establishment about the NH temperatures and they are neatly covering it up with a 35 year trendline that shows 0.325+C/decade trend in the arctic (60N-82.5N) graph on the sea ice page. The Arctic actually is following the global with a scary decline since 2007 that is steeper than the cooling trend in the Antarctic:
ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/msu/graphics/tlt/plots/rss_ts_channel_tlt_northern%20polar_land_and_sea_v03_3.png
The panic in the US and EU is to get a ‘Carbon’ deal signed asap so that they can take ‘measures’ and then show that their measures are working. They will fail, of course, but the decline in temps will be forthcoming almost immediately. I wonder if that weird cyclonic storm that cleared arctic ice out in 2007 and 2012 are actual harbingers of the turnaround. I recall noting that after the minimum in 2007, the temperature climb going into winter was the steepest rise in years.
I found the video to be highly exaggerated. Apparently, in Kazakhstan they have not heard about using driers to lower the moisture content of grain which has been harvested and placed in storage.
Kazakhstan is a long way north of here, but it isn’t all that far north in the Northern Hemisphere.
And here we are having summer temperatures in Spring, so Global Warming (TM) must be true.
Maybe it’s just an Ergot hallucination?
This last August on a cruise to Alaska, I queried a Park Naturalist employed by the State, ‘If global warming is real…why are the glaciers growing?’ Her answer was one that made me realize the extent to which the Kool-Aid is being drank in even the most frozen of countries. She bald faced replied without a hint of shame that the glaciers of Alaska are growing because of…….GLOBAL WARMING. You see it appears that when the climate is warmer, it snows more at higher elevations which in turn causes the glaciers to grow. You have to understand this did not sway me because I’m stubborn. My next question ‘What has happened to the supposed rise of ocean levels around the world, because it is not happening?’ Her response was just as cool as the last. You see because of the shrinking ice caps around the world, the land is rebounded because the load of the ice is lighter. I hate to compare the thought processes of modern day rank and file government employees to that of good German people before the last war, but to swallow such inane propaganda and regurgitate such nonsense without realizing the harm they do is mind boggling.
Ice mass loss is occuring at an accelerated rate in Greenland, Antarctica and globally from inland glaciers. Arctic sea ice is also falling at an accelerated rate. The exception to this ice loss is Antarctic sea ice which has been growing despite the warming Southern Ocean. This is due to local factors unique to the area.
If the Southern Ocean is warming, why is Antarctic sea ice increasing? There are several contributing factors. The hole in the ozone layer above the South Pole strengthens cyclonic winds that circle the Antarctic continent. The wind pushes sea ice around, creating areas of open water known as polynyas. More polynyas leads to increased sea ice production. Another contributor is changes in ocean circulation which cause less heat is transported upwards from the deeper, warmer layer. Hence less sea ice is melted.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/melting-ice-global-warming-intermediate.htm
The claim sea level isn’t rising is based on blatantly doctored graphs and conspiracy theories that are contradicted by empirical observational data. In fact, not only is global mean sea level data rising, but the rise is accelerating.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-not-rising-intermediate.htm
Actually the pacific ocean, the largest body of water on the planet is cooling at a rate so quickly and deep, it’s the reason why the salmon have been returning in historic record numbers the last 3 years. The Canadian Government unable to explain the reason for the masses of returning fish off both coasts, held a royal commission to look at the situation. The answer they came up with was exactly the same as Australian scientists reported (and was discussed on this site) several years ago. The great cooling trend of the waters off British Columbia, was very sudden and deep. The aforementioned Australians theorized it may be the turning point leading to a mini ice age. And Kevin, talking about the Kool-Aid, the arctic ice is returning heavier winter over winter, the Greenland ice mass is not decreasing, Antarctica (which contains 90% of the ice on the planet) is growing at a rate never seen before, and is now larger than ever before. You may serve up all the skeptical science from questionable websites you want, but I suggest you look out the window this winter and see the facts for yourself.
And there is no measured historical or modern evidence to support any of those statements about the Antarctic winds, Antarctic air temperatures, southern ocean temperatures, Antarctic ice loss, nor polynya growth. Guesses? Yes. Statements? Yes. But no measured evidence. Corrected and adjusted GRACE satellite approximations? Yes, but those are not calibrated against the 265 foot rise in Greenland ice cap thickness since 1945.
And, by the way, actual measured Antarctic continental air temperatures have been slowly but steadily going down the past 30 years. Antarctic sea ice has been steadily increasing since 1992.
This past June, at a new record high sea ice area anomaly of 2.05 million square kilometers, just the “excess” Antarctic sea ice area covered the same area as the entire Greenland ice cap (nominally 2.16 million square kilometers.)
Kevin:
See NOAA Mean Sea Level trends for the tidal gauges on the west coast. These [show] no sea level rise for the last thirty [year]s. Is the NOAA one of the conspiracy theorists?
April 2014 tied with 2010 as HOTTEST on record!
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/4
See UAH, RSS satellite temperatures for better data.
May 2014 HOTTEST on record!
http://www.weather.com/news/science/environment/may-2014-was-worlds-hottest-warmest-record-noaa-20140623
See UAH, RSS satellite temperatures for more reliable data.
June 2014 HOTTEST on record!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/07/21/june-2014-was-earths-warmest-on-record-as-ocean-temperatures-surged/
See UAH,RSS satellite temperatures for more reliable data.
the period from December 2013 to February 2014 was the 8th warmest on record globally
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/a-cold-u.s.-winter-for-sure-but-8th-warmest-globally-17196
See UAH, RSS satellite records for more reliable temperature data.
here in Holland we expect the warmest 1 st November ever…
EU has abandoned carbon goals. Latest agreement only pays lip service to carbon reduction.
Highest ever measured late October temperatures a few days ago in Finland…
The Green movement in Germany is a warm corpse as Government plans coal-fired power generation plants to replace nuclear. Man on the street universally pooh-bah global warming.
If the temperature reaches 19.5 C (67 F) anywhere in the UK today (which it almost certainly will), then it will be the hottest Halloween Day since such detailed record keeping began in the late 19th century.
And if the warm spell can hang on for another 24 hours, the English monthly record for November could be broken (21.1 C on 5th November 1938). A slightly higher 21.7 C was recorded on the coast of North Wales on 4th November 1946, under the effect of a foehn wind.
I’m presuming these have been converted from the original whole-degree Fahrenheit readings of 70 and 71
Ground shifting from under feet of the climate change hysteria as the so-called”pause” heads for nineteen years (see UAH and RSS satellite data).
Records will always be broken, that said, you have a warm spell in England. You all deserve it. Remember last winter in the American mid-west when it was colder than any previous year in recorded history? That cold spell broke some records too. The extent of ice formation and cold temperatures in Antarctica are records too. And the skeptics say all of the extreme cold weather records around the planet in the last few years is because of man made global warming. The glaciers in Alaska have been retreating since 1850. However the glacial footprints as of today cover a far larger area than they did in 1730. Common sense tells us that warming and cooling cycles are out of our control.