Guest ridicule by David Middleton
From the people who brought you, “Climate Change Is Causing the Seafloor to Sink“…
It Snowed in the Sahara and the Photos Are Breathtaking
Brian Kahn
Monday 5:05pm
Look, I know we cover a lot of the bad types of weather here. Wildfires, droughts, extreme cold, hurricanes. But allow me to make it up to you with some Good Weather. Snow in Sahara? Yes, please.
On Sunday, snow fell in one of the most unlikely places on Earth. Ain Sefra, an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert, got a couple inches of the white stuff. It clung to the dunes for an hour and a half before melting. The Atlas Mountains that ring the town saw snow stick around a bit longer according to Zinnadine Hashas, a local photographer who captured the scenes…
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A blast of cold air associated with a low pressure system spiraling over the western Mediterranean brought rare snow the town and surrounding dunes and mountains. A similar pattern brought snow there last year, too. Before that, the only other recorded snowfall in the region occurred in February 1979, though the highest reaches of Algeria do receive snow every few years.
Now, some troll on the internet will probably use this as an excuse to make a joke about global warming…
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The Earther troll’s troll is President Trump and his recent Tweets about frigid weather in parts of the U.S….
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017
It was 15 °F at our home in Dallas on New Years morning. Our landscaping got hammered… again… by climate change winter weather. Much of the continental U.S. experienced record and near-record low temperatures last week.
Deadly, Bitter Cold Grips Wide Swath of US, Delivers Shock to South
The temperature dropped to minus 32 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, breaking a New Year’s Day record that stood for 99 years
By Tammy Webber
Published at 7:13 PM CST on Jan 1, 2018 |
Bitterly cold temperatures gripped much of the nation on Tuesday, testing the mettle of even winter-wise northerners and delivering a shock to those accustomed to far milder weather in the South.
The cold has been blamed for at least a dozen deaths, prompted officials to open warming centers in the Deep South and triggered pleas from government officials to check on neighbors, especially those who are elderly, sick or who live alone.
In St. Louis, where temperatures dipped 30 degrees below normal, Mayor Lyda Krewson warned it was “dangerously cold.”
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At the same time, a heatwave swept into the country’s northernmost state: Anchorage, Alaska, tied a record high on Tuesday of 44 degrees — at the same time Jacksonville, Florida, was a mere 38 degrees.
Indianapolis Public Schools canceled classes after the city tied a record low for the day — set in 1887 — of minus 12 degrees. The northwest Indiana city of Lafayette got down to minus 19, shattering the previous record set in 1979. Many local residents noticed a hum, which Duke Energy said was caused by extra power surging through utility lines to meet electricity demands.
Although temperatures have been lower in Indiana — the all-time low was minus 36 in 1994 — the current frigid weather is unusual because of how long it’s lasted, experts said.
“It has just been relentlessly cold since Christmas,” said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private Weather Underground.
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With Chicago-area wind chills expected as low as negative 35 degrees, forecasters warned of frost bite and hypothermia risks. They urged residents to take precautions, including dressing in layers, wearing a hat and gloves, covering exposed skin and bringing pets indoors.
“You thought you were cold last year. You thought you were cold last month. But you weren’t cold. Now you’re cold,” said Jeanne Rivera, of Crystal Lake, Illinois, who was in Chicago on Tuesday to visit an art exhibit. “It hurts. It hurts the face.”
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In Texas, advocates for the homeless fanned out Tuesday across Houston to provide blankets and other warm gear as the National Weather Service issued a hard freeze warning until Wednesday for parts of the state.
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This was “lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” territory… Or at least “frozen sharks and stunned sea turtles and snow in the Gulf of Mexico, oh my!” territory.
“It’s so cold that sharks are freezing to death”…
Fourth thresher shark found frozen off Wellfleet
By Doug Fraser
Posted Jan 2, 2018
WELLFLEET — A fourth frozen thresher shark was discovered New Year’s Eve in the ice pack off Wellfleet, but extreme high tides and unstable ice conditions were keeping shark researchers from getting to the carcass, said Michelle Wcisel, program director for the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
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The newly discovered shark is similar in size to the other sharks found washed ashore last week — one in Wellfleet, one in Brewster and another in Orleans. They may be part of a group that could have become confused by the hook shape of the Cape Cod Bay shoreline and were overwhelmed by the recent cold spell.
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“The headline that it’s so cold that sharks are freezing to death has really taken off,” she said. Wcisel cautioned against trying to find this shark due to the danger of the unstable sea ice.
“It’s dangerous, really dodgy,” she said. “We really don’t want people to try and go out there.”
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Stunned sea turtles washing ashore in Pensacola…
Hundreds of sea turtles ‘cold-stunned’ by frigid temperatures in Gulf waters
USA TODAY NETWORK Melissa Nelson Gabriel, Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal Published 7:44 p.m. ET Jan. 4, 2018
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Yoda the green sea turtle moved its flippers Thursday afternoon and poked its head out of a container at the Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park.
The movements were a good sign for veterinarian Rebecca Wells, who is tending to sea turtles traumatized by the region’s unusually cool water temperatures.
Rescuers brought in Yoda on Wednesday when he was found outside of the water and not moving on an area beach.
“Their temperature is whatever the water temperatures is so whenever the water starts getting colder and colder, they are at risk,” explained Wells, who is taking care of Yoda and four other juvenile green turtles affected by the cold.
She expects to receive more turtles as the cold weather lingers.
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And snow south of Port Fourchon…
Rare snowfall on Louisiana’s Gulf coast
NEW ORLEANS (WWL-TV) – NEW ORLEANS (WWL-TV) – Eyewitness News viewers sent several photos and videos as freezing temperatures brought a rare snow to Louisiana’s Gulf coast Wednesday morning.
Video: Snow in the Gulf of Mexico, south of Port Fourchon. Cant see the video? Click here!
At least one of our platforms in the Gulf reported snowfall… Oh my!
So… I won’t feed the Earther troll by making any jokes about Gorebal Warming… Besides, someone else already beat me to the punchline…
Mr. Gore certainly deserves the criticism, but it rarely goes further than WUWT. We are alone.
This fiscal fiasco is far from over. The dangerous Anthropogenic Global Warming concept as reported is settled science and happening, there is no argument, the warm side dominates. Quite well in fact, it’s impressive…they simply own the MSM, academia and the ruling class (Aside from President Trump).
WUWT, according to them (Stokes, ATTP, Mosh, Griff, BenBen, etc.), is nothing more than a sceptic website of non-importance. Perhaps they’re right, I live in Ontario where the skeptic voice is effectively muzzled as it seems to be in the rest of the world. No surprise I guess as I am one of many who deliberately avoid any discussion on the issue. Most of my family and friends, especially those with a post-secondary education, support Al Gore’s man-made global warming scary narrative…melting ice, rising seas, extreme weather, floods, droughts, fires…a humidification apocalypse. My wife thought I made a fool of myself whenever I vocalized my support of the skeptic side.
I’m 67 and had a bit of fun this past Christmas. When folks asked me if I had a good Christmas I responded with a firm “no”. I explained the Arctic ice had melted enough to delay the Reindeer takeoff as a result I never got my presents (children first of course). I said I have hope for next year telling them Santa’s going to switch the Reindeer for Polar Bears (they are stronger swimmers than the Reindeer). There is some worry as the Polar Bear population is in decline due to climate change and they might have to turn down the opportunity to replace Santa’s Reindeer.
Hopefully things will work out, and the Reindeer will teach the Polar Bears to fly…I can only be optimistic.
It’s time for some Lindzen….
“What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.”
Lindzen is right of course, the science will eventually have its way (long after we are all gone) and the man-made global warming scare will find it’s place on the back shelves alongside The Arc of the Covenant and all the other man-made hobgoblins that have come and gone.
Keep up the good work Mr. Middleton! Luv your stuff!
Mods, someone, OT, please help, I am looking for that quote from the IPCC about redistributing the world’s wealth using CAGW as a tool. I want to present that quote to a few alarmists on YT.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/18/ipcc-official-%E2%80%9Cclimate-policy-is-redistributing-the-worlds-wealth%E2%80%9D/
http://www.unric.org/en/latest-un-buzz/29623-figueres-first-time-the-world-economy-is-transformed-intentionally
The snow in the Sahara, and the recent cold snap that brought sub-zero temperatures to the eastern US are a good reality check on alarmists who claim that increases in CO2 from 0.03% to 0.04% or 0.05% of the atmosphere will fry the planet.
The overall reality is that winter temperatures in middle latitudes are mostly dependent on wind direction, and the advection of either cold air from the north or milder air from the south. A week after the sub-zero cold snap, temperatures today are in the 50’s in most of Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana, but near zero in the Dakotas. During the deep freeze in the eastern US during the first week of the year, temperatures remained in the 30’s and 40’s west of the Rockies in Utah and Idaho, and it was warmer in Anchorage, Alaska than in Jacksonville, Florida.
So if temperatures in Chicago can fluctuate from -10 F to +50 F in a week (and possibly back down again next week), how can anyone really predict whether the global average temperature might rise by 2 C (3.6 F) over the next 100 years? Aren’t we dealing with a very small signal-to-noise ratio here, if the action of cold and warm fronts, and normal diurnal and seasonal fluctuations represent the “noise”?
When a “polar vortex” pushes cold air out of the Arctic somewhere further south (whether it’s over some area of North America, or Europe, or Asia), the air that left the Arctic has to be replaced by air pushing northward from the tropics somewhere else, at some other longitude. This means that abnormally cold winter weather at some longitudes in middle latitudes will be balanced by abnormally mild weather at some other longitudes. Some areas will freeze and dig out from snow and ice storms while other areas bask in the winter sun and rain.
But whoever is fortunate enough to live in the mild areas in any given winter should stop complaining about “global warming”, and send snowplows to and salt to those stuck in the snow!
If they keep calling cold events “extreme” they’re not going to recognize global cooling when it finally happens.
I wanted to see more pictures of the snow, so I searched on web for images using “images of snow in the sahara” as my search term. I was a bit surprised to see one image that didn’t look like the rest, the extremely beautiful face of pop singer, Anggun, who sings a song entitled “Snow on the Sahara.” And although I find most of her music a bit too cloying, this song is quite beautiful and evocative. It was nice browse through the desert snow images while listening: