Record Droughts Plague Argentina As Parana River Hits 77-Year Low
Record droughts plague Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Paraguay, threaten crops, water reserves, and economic recovery. Concentrating on Argentina, water levels on the Parana River are at 77 year lows, according to Reuters.
The river is a major transport route for agricultural exports and a source of drinking water, irrigation, and energy.
“Water levels in the Parana are at the lowest level since 1944, which requires a commitment from everyone to attend and act preventively and responsibly against this situation,” the Government of Argentina said.
The top hemispheric factor contributing to drought conditions in South America is summer 2020 La Nina. It managed to push cold water in the eastern Pacific Ocean and reduced precipitation across the region.
Droughts threaten to damage crop yields in South American economies reeling from the virus pandemic and exacerbate the global food shortage pushing food prices higher.
S&P Global Platts expands more on the drought and impacts on the global food supply:
- Brazil — the second-largest corn exporter in the world — suffered severe drought during most of the corn-growing months and in addition to that, the southern part of the country was affected by frost toward the end of June, which exacerbated corn yield losses.
- Persisting drought conditions in Brazil have trickled down to Argentina through the Parana river basin. Rainfall remained low across northern Argentina in recent months, where most agricultural activities are concentrated.
Days ago, Argentina announced a $10.4 million relief fund to mitigate the impact of the drought.
S&P Global Platts also makes sense of the wild weather worldwide, contributing not to climate change but rather La Nina:
The latest forecast by the US Climate Prediction Center said La Nina will potentially emerge during September-November and last through the 2021-22 winter, with a 66% chance during November-January.
The La Nina phenomenon, which is an occasional but natural cooling of the equatorial Pacific, is typically associated with above-normal rainfall in Southeast Asia, South Africa, India, and Australia, and drier weather in Argentina, Europe, Brazil, and the southern US.
This all means that inflation is not “transitory” as the Federal Reserve and all their muppets have tried to convince the world – instead, it’ll be sticking around for some time as food prices will remain elevated.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
Consider (ponder) these two consecutive paragraphs written by two different authors.
“Water levels in the Parana are at the lowest level since 1944, which requires a commitment from everyone to attend and act preventively and responsibly against this situation,” the Government of Argentina said.”
“The top hemispheric factor contributing to drought conditions in South America is summer 2020 La Nina. It managed to push cold water in the eastern Pacific Ocean and reduced precipitation across the region.”
One reports what I consider a FACT: the present extreme drought condition and the past extreme drought condition. The other proposes an explanation of the present drought condition. Who is the author of the ‘zerohedge.com’ article? I went to the zerohedge site and found that the author was Tyler Durden. But who is Tyler Durden? Actually, I should have first asked: What is ‘zerohedge.com’? This question is easier to answer for it seems clear that zerohedge is an investment firm which attracts readers to its site (existence) by using a ‘writer’ (Tyler) to attract readers interested in SCIENTIFIC TOPICS to its existence.
What Tyler wrote could be correct but he did not write that a La Nina event is extreme normal weather that which exists for a year or two over a significant portion of the Earth’s surface. Hence, it has little to nothing to do with possible CLIMATE CHANGE. And there is evidence that this unpredictable weather event has long been occurring for centuries.
So what seems important (to me) is this extreme drought condition can form during the short period of a year or two in those portions of the Earth’s surface whose climate has long been known to hot and dry during the summer months. For there are commonly observed few clouds during the summer season. Hence, the little precipitation seems to follow from the few observed clou.
This comment is to caution a Reader to ponder what one READS, especially so if you are not familiar with this thing termed SCIENCE.
For while SCIENCE cannot prove any idea to be absolutely the TRUTH, common observations can prove WRONG SCIENTIFIC IDEAS to be absolutely FALSE!!!
Have a good day, Jerry
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Robert Beatty
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Well said Jerry, and good investigation work.
Another example of how socialist propaganda is steadily invading every aspect of our communication, and life support systems.
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James McGinn
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Wind energy in Argentina: the largest wind farm begins to operate 2019
https://www.evwind.es/2019/09/26/wind-energy-in-argentina-the-largest-wind-farm-begins-to-operate/71068
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Jerry Krause
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Hi James and Robert and PSI Readers,
James, especially. (https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/07/24/cnn-on-fire-whirls-fire-tornadoes-and-pyro-clouds/)
I’m have terrible remembering these days but I visited the the burn of the bootleg wlldfire, still largest of the wildfires the in these lower 48 states of the USA, which burned our cabin and a 20 by 30 foot shed I had built. What most amazed me was the lack of ash where I knew piles of milled lumber had been stacked. Do not know what is under the sheets of steel sheets of roofing. Did not consciously note but I believe the paint was still intact.
But James, please check out the link and any associated writings which show that there maybe are academics who are studying natural atmospheric storms fueled by water molecules that are the product of burning of wood, etc. So, it seems others have studied that which you claim others have not studied. But their studying seem to support your understanding if you allow the atmosphere to have vertical convection and water molecules.
Have a good day, Jerry
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