Worst heat wave in 50 years in Rio de Janeiro kills 32

High temperatures in a desert is not that surprising. There are pictures in second link which remind me of Death Valley the year it was unseasonably wet and bloomed.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudtshoorn

The town is home to the world's largest Ostrich population with a number of specialized ostrich breeding farms. With 80,336 inhabitants it is the largest town in the Little Karoo region. 1859 also signalled the start of a long and serious drought which severely depressed the national economy - by 1865 there was serious poverty. When the drought was finally broken by floods in 1869 the depression lifted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoo
The Karoo is a semi-desert region of South Africa. It has two main sub-regions - the Great Karoo in the north and the Little Karoo in the south.

Snow in the winter is not that surprising.

I think it surprised the people living in the area where I own a farm. Before, the record for snow fall total was 38 inches. As of the 15th of this month, it was 52.6 inches. And of course, the month isn't over yet.

when it snows in the summer in the area where you own a farm...

...in the sand over this. There is the usual, then there is the unusual. Cold in winter and Heat in Summer is the usual. Record snowfall is the unusual, no matter what time of year it comes. Record heat would be unusual, no matter what time of year it comes. In at leat the Africa location you mentioned, I don't find it unusual there. I haven't checked for Brazil, but I do know the Amazon there is not a cool summer retreat.

...in the snow over this.

and if they were, I doubt they'd do the same in snow.

...since it's not the data THEY want. Seems that snow in Chicago in January is proof enough to them that GW is a myth.

Weather is local. It is NOT climate. But when someone (Al Gore, say) predicts warm winters and the opposite occurs, it must be pointed out.

Hot weather in the summer is NOT proof of Global Warming. There have been man y unusually hot or unusually cold spells all over the world in the past.

The AGW theory is collapsing not because of cold winters, but because the "scientists " have been show to have fabricated their data.

...God dumps 3 feet of snow into Washington, shutting it down for a few days.

Well, in Washington the same can be said about shoveling some else that is shoveled a lot, in all parts of the year (grin).

Al Gore and others predicted more EXTREME weather due to GW. Snow in winter is not proof that GW is bogus.

But most of his predictions have proved to be wrong. Are you not aware of the huge scandal surrounding AGW data?

You just said

"The AGW theory is collapsing not because of cold winters, but because the "scientists " have been show to have fabricated their data."

It was based on lies?

You're killing us Ed.

...how what happens in the southern hemisphere has a direct bearing on weather in the northern hemisphere. Even many of the Global Warming group have been suggesting there is no correlation between the two hemispheres in regard to the Global Warming Hypothesis. There are actually planets with atmospheres in our own solar system where one hemisphere shows a wide divergence in temperatures from the other.

in the US doesn't qualify to show the fallacy of global warming, then why not too long ago you were going on about lack of ice in the Arctic like it was some proof of global warming? Like having it both ways to suit you? Or just another course in flawed logic?

thread untracked. I'll not contribute to keeping it at the top of the forum anymore.

If it works for you it works for me