First major snow in Buenos Aires since 1918 (Note: this article from 2007)
First major snow in Buenos Aires since 1918
http://iceagenow.info/2013/07/major-snow-buenos-aires-1918/
Thousands cheered and threw snowballs in the streets of Buenos Aires
after wet snow fell for hours on Monday. The freezing spell has also extended across to Chile, Bolivia and Uruguay.
Argentina’s National Weather Service said it was the first major snow in Buenos Aires since 22nd June, 1918, though sleet or freezing rain have been periodically reported in decades since.
Higher elevations in western and central Argentina were also blanketed with snow.
The snow followed a bitter cold snap in late May that saw subfreezing temperatures, the coldest temperatures reported in 40 years in Buenos Aires.
For the last five days, polar temperatures have affected almost all of Argentina, with at least six people dying of the cold in various parts of the country.
Early morning temperatures in Buenos Aires dropped as low as 1.6 degrees C.
Parts of Jujuy and Mendoza provinces saw temperatures drop to -10 degrees C and experienced heavy snowfall.
Meteorologists predict that the cold will last for several more days and that low temperatures could get even more extreme.
Exposing the global warming con job.
http://looksouthtours.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/cold-weather-snap-hits-argentina-with-first-major-snow-in-buenos-aires-since-1918/…
Obama admin says coal use, CO2 emissions to increase by 46% from 2010-2040
Warmist Suicide Watch: Obama admin says coal use, CO2 emissions to increase by 46% from 2010-2040
The Energy Information Adminisitration reports: EIA’s recently released International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013) projects that world energy consumption will grow by 56% between 2010 and 2040, from 524 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) to 820 quadrillion Btu. Most of this growth will come from non-OECD (non-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, where demand is […]…
CO2-induced crop failure update: “if USDA is correct American farmers will harvest their first 14 billion bushel corn crop this fall, about a billion bushels above the old record”
CO2-induced crop failure update: “if USDA is correct American farmers will harvest their first 14 billion bushel corn crop this fall, about a billion bushels above the old record”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/co2-induced-crop-failure-update-usda-is.html
Record US Corn Production Expected to Improve Pork Industry Profitability – The Pig SiteUS – An agricultural economist with the University of Missouri expects record US corn production to result in greatly improved profitability for North American pork producers, Bruce Cochrane writes.The typical summer peak in live hog prices combined with some relief on the feed cost side has pushed the majority of North American pork producers back into the black.Dr Ron Plain, an agricultural economics professor with the University of Missouri, says if USDA is correct American farmers will harvest their first 14 billion bushel corn crop this fall, about a billion bushels above the old record.…
Latimer Alder: ‘The IPCC has acted as a climatologist’s trade union, asked to evalu3ate its own members work, it has, not surprisingly given them good marks’
Latimer Alder: “The IPCC has acted as a climatologist’s trade union, asked to evaluate its own members work, it has, not surprisingly given them good marks”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/latimer-alder-ipcc-has-acted-as.html
Making Science Public » What’s behind the battle of received wisdoms?[Latimer Alder] Among the howls of outrage I think I hear a hint of desperation. A realisation of a change in the weather and that things will never be the same again for the warmists.Since teh beginning of the global warming/climate change/climate chaos/weird weather scare, they have been used to getting a pretty free ride from the mainstream media and politicians.No alarmist has really been publicly grilled. The IPCC has acted as a climatologist’s trade union, asked to evaluate its own members work, it has, not surprisingly given them good marks. Until recently all debate could be shut down by spurious accusations of Big Oil linked denial and /or heavy moderation of the blogosphere.An AGW ‘narrative’ came into existence and rapidly gained influential supporters. And a ‘climate change’ industry was born and grew…and grew and grew again.But one key player in the picture wasn’t cooperating. The central character – Mother Gaia herself. While the industry tried to convince everyone of imminent doom, she was a refusenik. And eventually her intransigence became too obvious to hide. [Via Justin Templer]…
IPCC lead author Anders Levermann: “What I would say in short is that we simply put expiration dates on certain cultures, on certain societies around the globe…I personally believe that we cannot adapt to a warming of 4 or 5 degrees [C]”
IPCC lead author Anders Levermann: “What I would say in short is that we simply put expiration dates on certain cultures, on certain societies around the globe…I personally believe that we cannot adapt to a warming of 4 or 5 degrees [C]”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/ipcc-lead-author-anders-levermann-i.html
Leaving Our Descendants A Whopping Rise in Sea Levels by Fen Montaigne: Yale Environment 360[Lead author of the sea level chapter in the upcoming fifth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Anders] Levermann: What I would say in short is that we simply put expiration dates on certain cultures, on certain societies around the globe. …I personally believe that we cannot adapt to a warming of 4 or 5 degrees [C] because the increase in extreme events and also sea level rise, combined with extreme storm surges, will simply increase the pressure on our complex societies, which might bring them to the verge of collapse.…
New paper finds another amplification mechanism by which the Sun controls climate — Published in Quaternary Research
New paper finds another amplification mechanism by which the Sun controls climate
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-paper-finds-another-amplification.html
A paper published today in Quaternary Research implies solar activity caused changes in the Asian monsoon, which in turn causes large-scale climate change over much of the globe. The paper adds to many others finding amplification mechanisms by which small changes in solar activity can have large amplified effects on climate, via ocean oscillations such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, atmospheric oscillations such as the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Quasi-biennial Oscillation, Aleutian Low, Eurasian pattern, & Asian monsoon, and via stratospheric ozone, and sunshine hours/clouds.
Centennial-scale Asian monsoon variability during the mid-Younger Dryas from Qingtian Cave, central China
Dianbing Liua, ,
Yongjin Wanga, , ,
Hai Chengb, c, ,
Xinggong Konga, ,
Shitao Chena,
a College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
b Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
c Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2013.06.009, How to Cite or Link Using DOI
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Abstract
The regional climate correlation within the Northern Hemisphere in the cold/dry mid-Younger Dryas event (YD) remains elusive. A key to unraveling this issue is sufficient knowledge of the detailed climate variability at the low latitudes. Here we present a high-resolution (3-yr) δ18O record of an annually laminated stalagmite from central China that reveals a detailed Asian monsoon (AM) history from 13.36 to 10.99 ka. The YD in this record is expressed as three phases, characterized by gradual onsets but rapid ends. During the mid-YD, the AM [Asian monsoon] variability exhibited an increasing trend superimposed by three centennial oscillations, well-correlated to changes in Greenland temperatures. These warming/wetting fluctuations show a periodicity of ~ 200 yr, generally in agreement with centennial changes in cosmogenic nuclides indicated by the 10Be flux [a proxy of solar activity] from the Greenland ice. This relationship implies that centennial-scale climate changes during the mid-YD are probably caused by solar output and rapidly transported over broad regions through atmosphere reorganization.
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