Comments on Gateway Pundit: Brrrr... China Suffers Coldest Winter in 100 Years...

Stay warm JFarreast.It sounds like a horrible mess...

2008-02-06T21:19:00.000-08:00

Stay warm JFarreast.
It sounds like a horrible mess.

I live in northern Hunan Province and thought I wo...

2008-02-05T17:03:00.000-08:00

I live in northern Hunan Province and thought I would share my personal experience. From my point of view the problems do not come from extreme weather but from no one being prepared for it, me included.
Usually we have snow once or twice a year, we wake up and see the white and it is lovely but it is usually gone by the afternoon. This time we had only 3 or 4 inches of snow at any time but the ice was bad. There is no snow/ice removal equipment. Drivers do not know how to drive in these kinds of conditions.
I had no water for 8 days because of frozen pipes. I finally got desperate/smart and poured 2 small kettles of hot water on the pipes and water flowed. From then on I left it dripping. A simple solution for a very uncomfortable situation.
In the north of China everyone has coal powered central heat. In the south we don't. I have an air conditioner that makes some heat, but not enough for 2 rooms and the kitchen and bathroom. My bathroom and kitchen were 4c, another room 6c, another 9c.
My windows were very leaky. I put plastic on one and it bubbled out into the room about 18", showing how much north wind was coming in and how much warm air was going out. I then convinced a company to install another set of windows. I had to really make them feel sorry for me. They did not want to do it. It really made a difference.
I was still cold enough to have to wear 4 layers of woolen clothing.
Finally I bought a space heater and it helps a lot. Temps have gone up a little and I can feel the difference with the new windows. I am comfortable now.
In other places ice pulled down power lines. One city of 4 million in Hunan have not had power or water for 2 weeks now. But poor people burn bricks of coal in their homes and would not use the electricity for heat anyway.
They do not have the knowledge or resources to buy space heaters or windows. But they are resilient and patient.
I used to live in Guangzhou, about an 8 minute walk from that train station where 800,000 people were gathered. I'm so happy to now be cozy in my little home in Hunan.

jimmy: "Could it be that reduction in pollution ha...

2008-02-05T15:22:00.000-08:00

jimmy: "Could it be that reduction in pollution has caused the observed warming trend over the last 30 years instead of CO2?"

No, it has not to be that at all!

Actually the man made global dimming is an hypothesis (okay, volcanoes can result in a cold earth, but do we know how much and for how long? ...historically large volcanoes are also on another scale) not unlike the hypothesis of large man made global warming I think.

First look at temperature variation last 1500 years in the diagram here. This is from the northern of Sweden, but i shows that the variation in temperature often has been very large in a short period of time several times 1500 years back in history, and that is also shown in the very good Loehle diagram. The first diagram from northern Sweden is tree ring proxy data. The (I think quite sensational) Loehle diagram consists of several of the best non-tree ring data around the world (posts with details about Loehle at ClimateAudit). (The Loehle's graph is reconstructed and commented by Gavin Schmidt at RealClimate, and then corrected.)

Actually the sun activity has a quite good correlation to climate tha last 50 years (despite a bad done article from Lockwood and Fröhlish recently). I believe there is a very high possibility of two weak sun cycles the coming 25 years, which will cool the earth significantly. 0,5 degrees or more.

I haven't seen one media source yet mention that S...

2008-02-05T12:44:00.000-08:00

I haven't seen one media source yet mention that Shanghai, which is among the farthest places north that had snow, is situated near the same latitude as New Orleans.
Guanzhou is a little north of Cuba.

The weather patterns are different, but still.

Actually it was exactly 1 year ago today... lol.

2008-02-05T11:27:00.000-08:00

Actually it was exactly 1 year ago today... lol.

Methinks the Doctor has misdiagnosed the whole 'Gl...

2008-02-05T11:25:00.000-08:00

Methinks the Doctor has misdiagnosed the whole 'Global Warming' cause.

Could it be that reduction in pollution has caused the observed warming trend over the last 30 years instead of CO2? This explains the China Paradox and seems to match observed shorter term cycles like the Weekend Effect.

I took on the topic last year here:

Particulate Reduction

It would seem that global dimming has re-asserted ...

2008-02-05T10:53:00.000-08:00

It would seem that global dimming has re-asserted itself; or maybe sun spot cycles; or anti-global warming. It's so hard to keep up.

Yeah, but can you imagine how cold it would be in ...

2008-02-05T10:02:00.000-08:00

Yeah, but can you imagine how cold it would be in China (and all those other places), if it was not for the reality of manmade global warming?

Since the science is settled about manmade global warming, we can only be thankful for it. Stop manmade global warming! Oh-oh! Will that mean it will be even colder? Oh-oh!