Global Warming Contradictions: Record Snowfall in United Arab Emirates
Rides a Pale Horse
While politicians and global warming scientists continue to poster on the effects of global warming, the citizens of Ras Al Khaimah awoke to find snow had fallen in their region. So unusual was this occurrence that the locals do not even have a “word” to describe it.
“Record” snowfall in certain parts of the States can mean inches, or in some areas, measured in “feet”, yet in Ras Al Khaimah, the “record” snowfall was 10 centimeters or 3.937 inches.
From The National:
Snow covered the Jebel Jais area for only the second time in recorded history yesterday.
So rare was the event that one lifelong resident said the local dialect had no word for it.
According to the RAK Government, temperatures on Jebel Jais dropped to -3°C on Friday night. On Saturday, the area had reached 1°C.
Major Saeed Rashid al Yamahi, a helicopter pilot and the manager of the Air Wing of RAK Police, said the snow covered an area of five kilometres and was 10cm deep.
“The sight up there this morning was totally unbelievable, with the snow-capped mountain and the entire area covered with fresh, dazzling white snow,†Major al Yamahi said.
One Dubai Meteorogist stated that while there this “variability” in the weather, the “trend” hasn’t changed:
“The night might cool down in the desert below 10°C. There is variability in the weather from year to year but it hasn’t shown a trend in getting colder or getting warmer.â€
Climate change is nothing new. During the last Ice Age, the deserts of Northern Africa were “lush pastures” and forests.
While the global warming alarmists claim that a “catastrophic” global warming event is underway and due to humans living in western industrialized countries, there’s other evidence, if you care to look, which tells a different story: prior climate changes have been just as “dramatic”, prior climate changes well before the advent of the horseless carriage and carbon emissions.
Though the time at which the Eemian interglacial ended is subject to some uncertainty (it was probably around 110,000 years ago), what does seem evident from the sediment records that cross this boundary is that it was a relatively sudden event and not a gradual slide into colder conditions taking many thousands of years. The recent high-resolution Atlantic sediment record of Adkins et al (1997) suggests that the move from interglacial to much colder-than-present glacial conditions occurred over a period of less than 400 years (with the limitations on the resolution of the sediment record leaving open the possibility that the change was in fact very much more rapid than this).
J.M. Adams
Fourteen thousand years ago, the earth experienced “rapid global warming” within the “space of only a few years or decades”:
Around 14,000 years ago (about 13,000 radiocarbon years ago), there was a rapid global warming and moistening of climates, perhaps occurring within the space of only a few years or decades. In many respects, this phase seems to have resembled some of the earlier interstadials that had occurred so many times before during the glacial period. Conditions in many mid-latitude areas appear to have been about as warm as they are today, although many other areas – whilst warmer than during the Late Glacial Cold Stage – seem to have remained slightly cooler than at present. Forests began to spread back, and the ice sheets began to retreat. However, after a few thousand years of recovery, the Earth was suddenly plunged back into a new and very short-lived ice age known as the Younger Dryas.
–J. M. Adams
While the local residents of Ras Al Khaimah do not have a word to cover an event as the recent snowfall, at one time the area of the great deserts of Northern Africa was covered in “lush pastures and forests” with “lost ancient cities”:
Thanks to satellite photography, the locations and details of many lost ancient cities in the vast deserts of the world are causing scientists to see that these cities must have flourished when the climate was much different, obviously during the Ice Age, when (whereas now a scanty few inches of rainfall per year on these deserts) the rainfall was much greater, with lush pastures and forests, where now are seas of sand with parched craggy cliffs where streams once flowed, now known as dry wadis, and where lakes were nourished by great Ice Age rainfall amounts, whereas now, are merely vast, parched, sandy, desert basins.
The ancient cities Loulan, Subashi, and Niya, now in the huge Takla Makan (meaning Buried City) Desert of western China, flourished when now virtually dried up Lake Nop was much bigger, fed by Ice Age rains, where ancient Bronze Age coffins have been discovered with the body remains mostly intact, and the remains of pears, mutton, and grapes, now right in the middle of that vast desert, but then, when perhaps 30 inches of rain per year fell, was a rich environment with a wide variety of vegetation and wildlife.
Source – Dancing from Genesis
These cities and kingdoms flourished during the last Ice Age. It’s fairly obvious that there was a previous climate change during which rainfall ceased and the land turned into hot arid deserts while the ancient cities perished. It’s unknown as to whether the ancient meteorologists blamed the residents of the ancient cities for their use of wood for their brick ovens, for their eventual doom. Or whether the ancient politicians used the lessening rainfall as an excuse to raise taxes.
By LBG
Hat Tip: Rides a Pale Horse
