128 Million Square Kilometers Were Covered By Snow At China (up to 20 inches)

China Meteorological News Press ^ | 02/01/08 | Lin Lin

[visualops]

The Chinese trying to control the weather had nothing to do with this? Unintended consequences and all that. Just wondering.

[Eye of Unk]

128 Million Square Kilometers Were Covered By Snow At China of 20” depth?

Sounds just like where I live in Alaska

We have it for several months, doesn’t bother us a whole lot though.

Actually I think the Chinese may panic and do something from way out in left field like attack Taiwan right now for food, fuel and just because of something to do to save political face.

[justa-hairyape]

The Chinese trying to control the weather had nothing to do with this? Unintended consequences and all that. Just wondering.

Conspiratorially speaking, there are some interesting coincidences. The Chinese are hosting the Summer Olympics. They claim they can control the weather. The Globalist have been screaming about global warming and carbon footprints. The Chinese are one of the biggest and faster growing violators of AGW. They also want China to look good during the summer Olympics and certainly do not want it to be too hot. What would a socialist control freak do in that scenario ? I am sure they at least tried somethings, but doubt they were effective. They certainly did not lower the Temperature of the tropical Pacific by 0.5 C and cause the La Nina. How could they ?

[TigerLikesRooster]

To battle snowfalls, you have to have proper infrastructure, and experience. Many Chinese areas hit by snow storm has close to none of them.

The place like Hangzhou has subtropical weather. Now it is buried under snow. No wonder they panic.

[justa-hairyape]

Over 100,000 homes have collapsed under the weight of the snow. Apparently the roofs were built for rain and not for accumulating snow. Lots of Greenhouses collapsed for similar reasons. The power line supports were also not strong enough to hold lines encased with heavy ice. Oklahoma got hit with an Ice Storm at the start of our winter. Some of those people were without power for a week or longer. The most difficult hit areas in China were the cities since you have dense populations with minimal stocks of personal food.

[SauronOfMordor]

But wow, 14.4 million poultry ? Almost a million pigs ? Almost 1/2 million sheep ? All frozen to death.

Expect some interesting market conditions next week as the Chinese govt realizes it needs to sell some assets in order to import replacement food

[SauronOfMordor]

Who's to say that there is not already 6 million dead ( that is not going to get reported by the state news sources ) in China already from this major crises in China ?

We're only seeing pictures from urban areas. No telling how things must be like in a cut-off rural village

[Dacus943]

"Sounds just like where I live in Alaska. We have it for several months, doesn’t bother us a whole lot though."

Yeah, but this China region is NOT Alaska! The people and infrastructure in no way was designed to, or had any capability to handle this type of severe weather phenomena.

My heart goes out to the good Chinese people who truly are suffering.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Won’t all that snow cover reflect more of the Sun’s heat back into space, thereby causing a vicious cycle of snow, more reflection, more snow, etc.?

[visualops]

Let’s say they want to make dry season wetter and wet season drier. I could be wrong but from what I’ve read, most weather control attempts are the ability to create precipitation, rather than to eliminate it. So maybe their fiddling created more precipitation of a bad sort, in other words a confluence of events that might not have otherwise occurred, or at the least, made a storm exponentially worse and over a bigger area than it would have been. Just wild speculation, because of course sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, or in this case, a snowstorm.

[Ditto]

Typical socialist Brain dead planning. They are trying to transport some coal up rivers with barges, but the rivers are freezing and jamming with ice.

We had the exact same situation in the US back in the late 70s (when eco-nazis were screaming man-made global cooling.) Rivers across the upper Ohio valley froze solid which prevented barge shipments of coal and other fuels. If that cold snap had lasted another week or so we could have seen real trouble.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks TigerLikesRooster.

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[Balding_Eagle]

128 MILLION square kilometers? That’s about 50 million square miles, 12 times the size of the US.

Yet NO satellite pictures.

Odd.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

LOL! Gotto love those crazy Indians!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Has anybody seen that idiot Gore since all this Global Cold?,?I>

Seems like the Global Warming hucksters hibernate in the winter.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Has anybody seen that idiot Gore since all this Global Cold?

Seems like the Global Warming hucksters hibernate in the winter.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

But that snow that they are using for water must be full of soot from all that coal burning.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

they must be trying to find any dogs or cats to eat now since the main staple food of chicken has died off.

[justa-hairyape]

The latest tally is about 1/4 million homes have been destroyed. Close to a million damaged or destroyed. We get upset here in California when we loose 1,000 homes to a fire. Cannot even imagine what losing 250,000 homes would be like. There are also now reports that the Chinese PLA are shooting submachine guns at iced over power line structures to remove the ice. At least that it was the government media is telling its people.