Mongolian Deep Freeze Due To Global Warming–Says Discredited Daily Telegraph
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
Record cold in Mongolia. And guess what the climate fraudsters blame it on?
The strain of exertion spreads across the little Mongolian boy’s face as he grabs hold of a rope fastened around a slumped cow’s neck, bends his knees and heaves with every muscle in his body to pull the animal to its feet.
Dorjoo, four, furrows his brow as he exclaims: “I can do this!” The determined focus in his eyes shows a glint of the optimism needed to survive this year’s bitter, brutal winter in the sweeping wilds of the Mongolian steppe.
But the cow, its ribs visible under its matted brown fur, is too feeble to stand up from the frozen soil where its legs buckled moments earlier.
Lying metres from a horrifying pile of decomposing animal carcasses, its own expression displays exhaustion and a weary embrace of impending death.
The sight of dead and dying animals has become tragically familiar in Mongolia this year as the East Asian nation has fallen into the grip of a slow-onset weather disaster known as the “dzud”.
About 90 per cent of the country has been impacted by the phenomenon – a deadly mix of perishing temperatures as low as -50C, icy winds and layers of heavy snow that have weakened livestock and frozen pasturelands, killing between four to six million cows, sheep, goats and horses since last November.
Officials say this year’s dzud is the worst in decades. Scientists attribute the catastrophe to a mixture of overgrazing and global climate change.
Can the Telegraph sink any lower? Now we are expected to believe that global warming is
making Mongolia colder.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
This article could have come from the BBC, where everything bad is due to two things, the second one always being climate change.
Correct Phillip.
However, the Guardian would have claimed both spots.
Oh dear. What a pity. Nevermind. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Less ox farts and deadly breath to make our wee corner of Gaia a few nanodegrees warmer. Maybe they could grow soy?
Elsewhere in the neighborhood:
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from 10 northern regions in Kazakhstan because of floods in the area, the authorities have said.
The worse than usual seasonal floods have been caused by melting snow.
Across the border in Russia, an oil refinery in the city of Orsk, 1,800km southeast of Moscow, has stopped operations because of the floods.
The Kremlin has warned that water levels in some areas are rising faster than at any time in the last 100 years.
PB : Yes, the BBC have made the claim that global warming (or now “boiling” according to their Chief Environment Correspondent, Justin Rowlat (PPE Oxford) produces colder winters :
BBC
Monty Don
Gardeners World
Episode 19 2023 :
“This year I’ve changed the planting either side of the summer house here up on the mound and this is all part of my response to the extremes of temperature that we’re getting as a result of climate change, because global warming, as we used to call it, doesn’t just mean hotter days, it also tends to mean colder extremes in winter, sporadically and erratically in winter times and this last winter when it went down to -16 degrees C here in Longmeadow that means that kills at a stroke anything that is not heated or protected….”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001p9hy/gardeners-world-2023-episode-19
Monty Don is clearly either as thick as sh1t or a deliberate liar.
Longmeadow is just outside Leominster, Herefordshire. Winter temperatures are notoriously low there regularly in fact some of England’s all time lowest temperatures have been recorded in Herefordshire or Shropshire. He must know that so he is therefore a liar.
Ray. He has to be a liar to keep his very lucrative job at the BBC.
If the journalist had made even the smallest effort to investigate they would have discovered that dzuds occur every 10 years or so and there is an underlying economic dynamic. Dzuds are a combination of unusually severe cold and large numbers of animal deaths. There were a series of severe winters between 1999 and 2002 and again from 2008 to 2010. These cause large cumulative losses to herds, particularly older and less resilient animals. It takes a consider time for herds to recover and to reach an age structure with a high proportion of vulnerable animals. Overgrazing doesn’t cause a dzud, it simply means that there are more vulnerable animals when the freeze occurs.
Sadly, dzuds are a natural process of population control for animal herds. They are like forest fires in the US West. Of course pastoral populations are severely affected but it has been this way for millennia. It is possible that this is part of the process which lay behind repeated migrations from East and Central Asia associated with invasions of China, the Middle East and Europe by Mongol and Turkic peoples intermittently over the last 2000 years.
But what British journalist knows anything about pastoral populations in Asia other than sob stories put out by relief agencies. Patently that is what prompted this article. And for the record I did quite a lot of work on environmental problems in Mongolia a few years ago and I have worked intermittently on Central Asia for three decades.
The journalist and the newspaper are nothing more than dumb vehicles for nonsense put out by PR folk working for “charities” whose mode of operation is to make a catastrophe of routine events.
Spot on Gordon.
Who can forget the Dzud of 2009/10 (i.e. just after Climategate and the Copenhagen CoP) when 8.5 million animals (and not a few herders) died?
True, the usual charlatans in the BBC, MET, Grauniad were suspiciously quiet about it all.
Yes, my first thought when I read that the weather condition had a name was that it can’t be climate change.
Yes, Mother Nature has been done away with by the green zealots
The quality of “journalism” these days. He/she/it does not know the meaning of “to decimate” .
I am sure that no part of that cow will be wasted. And the young lad looks well nourished.
Thanks for that , I have not followed that part of the world so nice to see what others understand. Climate change as whole is a joke wx changes . Have followed the science of it or not as the experts don’t rely on science. It’s becoming one sad world.
I’ve noticed that very few journalists in any newspaper ever now bother to do any research into articles that they clearly just copy and paste from press releases. This is all the more lazy since research is now so quick and simple using Google and other search engines. Gone are the days when real journalists used to spend time in public libraries and on long phone calls to experts to research their articles.
Gone are the days when real journalists used to spend time in public libraries and on long phone calls to experts to research their articles.
The nobility of journalists is a myth that will never die.
No danger of Homewood being accused of either, as he makes Dellingpole look like Matt Ridley
When a country or region has a name for a weather event then you know that it has happened many times in the past.
If temperatures are sub zero all day how does this happen ”horrifying pile of decomposing animal carcasses“? The carcasses would only start decomposing when the thaw arrives.
No tragedy is too severe for the commies not to exploit.
Officials say this year’s dzud is the worst in decades.
So it’s happened before. Nothing new. In fact, they HAVE A NAME FOR IT!
Scientists attribute the catastrophe to a mixture of overgrazing and global climate change.
Not real scientists.
The East Asian nation is in the grip of a weather phenomenon known as the ‘dzud’ – its worst in decades. Is climate change to blame?
Betteridge’s Law.
said Bolormaa Enkhbat, a climate change finance expert and governor of western Khovd province
A ‘climate change finance expert’ knows how to extract cash from Westerners. A huge pity party like this article should work quite well.
Zud – Wikipedia Worth reading.
shock! horror! BBC news website includes an article about icebergs that does NOT blame climate change. !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-f4de435a-d215-4a7c-86e9-9b838701c993
a very interesting article about antarctic icebergs and how they are created and destroyed. The article includes the sentence “Whenever people hear about these monster bergs, they immediately think it must be a signature of climate change – the consequence of a warming world. The truth is always more complicated.” This is the only reference to climate.
Unbelievable! Someone at the BBC will be losing their job for this oversight and diversion from the BBC climate catastrophe agenda
re this article
“Lying metres from a horrifying pile of decomposing animal carcasses, its own expression displays exhaustion and a weary embrace of impending death.“
if the problem is sub zero conditions, how are the dead animals decomposing? Don’t the authors understand how freezers work? Don’t they have freezers full of vegeburgers and tofu that hasnt decomposed?
such sensational ignorance doesnt bode well for their journalistic abilities.
The UN says the same thing…
UN says Mongolian herders are experiencing extreme ‘dzud’ cold conditions more often, with little time to recover before the next one.
This year’s dzud has seen numerous blizzards, bringing heavy snow.
According to the United Nations, dzuds are already becoming more common with climate change.
This is the sixth dzud Mongolia has experienced in the past decade, with herders still struggling to recover after last year’s harsh winter which claimed the lives of 4.4 million livestock animals.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/19/harsh-mongolian-winter-leaves-4-7m-animals-dead-red-cross-issues-appeal
So that is more cold years. Looks like global cooling is setting in, and here is evidence of it.
Also new cold records in scandinavia and Antarctica. Prepare for the coming cold decade.
At -50 degrees how are the corpses decomposing?
“The increasing global demand for cashmere in the past decade resulted in expansion of goat herding in the country which certainly benefited Mongolia. However, it also resulted in environmental degradation due to overgrazing, deforestation, erosion of the landscape and rangeland, and loss of biodiversity.”
August 2020
“Cashmere Sector Recovery from Covid 19 – Building Forward Better” workshop | United Nations Development Programme (undp.org)
What is interesting is that they seem to believe that if the world cooled down again by 1C then everything in the garden would be lovely, world peace would break out, and there would only be winners – no losers. Everything was so terrific back in 1800 after all. It is an attitude of extraordinary stupidity and the fact that it affects so many so-called intelligent people shows that something other than rational thought (science) is going on – we are back in the territory of magic. Climate changes all the time , there are winners and losers. That’s the way it is.
It’s the greentard religion. Not science, not magic, but delusion.
Oh no, HB, it’s not stupidity on the part of the alarmists – they need to keep the pot boiling. However, it is stupidity when it comes to the fools who believe it and don’t realise they are being scammed. 😉
You criticise the DT unjustly. There are plenty of sceptical articles published in it.
”Officials say this year’s dzud is the worst in decades.”
So the worst dzud since the last dzud – what caused that one?
A mixture of over-grazing and climate change – is it a recipe? What are the proportions?
Rotting frozen carcasses. I’m embarrassed I didn’t pick up on that.
They snuck one past old Gamecock. [75 in a week.]
Many happy returns for the day
Speaking of carcasses, the Loch Arkaig osprey webcam is top viewing
Loch Arkaig Osprey Cam: Live Webcam – Woodland Trust
It is possible that “Climate Change” is involved, just as it is in milder weather in the UK since around 1990 (see the March temperature data in the previous post). It would only take a stronger/more-persistent High pressure to the West to get colder/drier weather in Mongolia, with matching better weather on the other side of the High.
The bottom line is that journalism needs plots of data, would be easy to do via links in online articles, and would keep journos honest knowing that some readers will look at the data.
A good article about Mongolian weather, apart from the small section on Climate Change:
https://dc-ams.org/why-mongolia-is-one-of-the-coldest-places-in-the-world/
STORIES IN THE BBC
The BBC has two interesting reports: Note: A23a is a large ice island
A23a: Tracking the world’s biggest iceberg as it drifts towards oblivion
{Good text and great photos and drawings}
Sydney floods: Warnings of further deluge as major dam spills
{A standard text account}
Conspicuously absent from Nicola Smith’s fine article is information on why the people CHOOSE to live there. They CHOOSE to be herders.
She paints a hideous picture of life in Mongolia, yet they stay. So maybe it’s not as bad as she makes it.
Wait! 47 paragraphs in, she finally says,
Despite the hardships, the peace of the open steppe and the satisfaction of living off the land spurs some families to keep going.
Okay, so it’s not so bad. Pity party over.
More inconsistencies I blogged in the Telegraph
Scientists attribute the catastrophe to a mixture of overgrazing and global climate change.
Gamecock attributes it to . . . Mongolia. It’s Mongolia. What did she expect would happen?
Will next story be about how awful it is to be an eskimo?