Posted on 02/18/2008 1:59:19 AM PST by justa-hairyape
BEIJING (AFP) — Freezing weather has again swept through southern China, leaving 180,000 people stranded and causing power outages, just as the region was recovering from the last cold snap, state press said Monday.
The latest cold weather has taken a severe toll in mountainous Yunnan province, where heavy snowfalls since Thursday have caused huge problems, the China Daily said.
Eighty percent of the two million residents in Qujing city remain without electricity due to the combined impacts of the most recent cold snap and the ferocious weather that first hit southern China in early January.
The snowfalls over the past few days have also blocked 14,000 kilometres (8,700 miles) of roads in Yunnan, a prime reason behind the large number of people stranded, the China Daily said, citing provincial transport authorities.
If the next U.S. President is:
(1) Obama: He will blunder into a national security disaster like JFK did.
(2) McCain: He may not wait to be hit first. He may pull a madman shtick Kim Jong-il is so good at.
(3) Hitlery: She will bomb China and nuke N. Korea when Matt Druge expose again that Bill is doing another White House female staff.
I think the main problem with a Chinese implosion is that they will be forced to sell their US Government bonds, which means our government wont be able to find anyone to finance its deficit spending.
Especially, Kosovo.
Precisely Kosovo. That alone has the potential to ignite a World War. If the Russians know a Global Cooling cycle is going to make their motherland almost unbearable, they could be more or less looking for any excuse to re-fight WWII. Unfortunately, all our Rino/Dino leaders are completely blind with respect to that situation. They are going to walk into that potential bear trap blind as moonbats. Either that or they are going to force both Russia and China to counterattack the idiotic Global Warming Control Set. If Global Cooling is actually occurring, what choice will the Russians and Chinese actually have ?
China’s cold snap is an extreme outlier event.
The past 30 days have been as much as 10C below normal which is very rare indeed and the fact that some areas have seen this for the entire winter makes it an extreme event.
Temps will return to normal shortly which is an average daily high of 20C in southern areas and the snow will melt. I imagine they will be better prepared next time.
An unprecedented natural disaster such as this, will take years to recover from (reference New Orleans for example). They will need a couple of mild winters and a couple of normal summers just to have a chance. What is real telling here is how many troops the PLA currently have mobilized. We have not seen that many troops mobilized since WWII.
Which means the government would have no choice but to cut spending. Which might not be a bad thing
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