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Argentina lost 12% of national flock to severe drought in north Patagonia
North Patagonia in Argentina is suffering the worst drought is 17 years which has meant the loss of 1.8 million sheep, since 2007, and so far this year rainfall has been 45% below the historic average. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThey're probably just not getting enough radiation from Kepi Troll's soporific WWIII scenario.
Sep 28th, 2016 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What was he saying about that famous Mendoza orographic rain-shadow that protects Fortress Argentina and shields the country from all that nasty precipitation that might otherwise have been carried on the Westerlies from Chile?
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Sep 28th, 2016 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ML
That must be Southern Hemisphere, friendly' radiation from China, North Korea or other spiritual Herman's of the brave Patagonians.
And it was so recently that I_Trolltally_Invent_Everything_I_Post said “You are the ultimate imbecile, volcanoes are the best long-term fertilizers of land on Earth.”
Sep 28th, 2016 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who is the ultimate imbecile now? :-D
What a surprise to find the three MP commentators-in-chief making fun of what is but a sad occurrence.
Sep 28th, 2016 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Typical of individuals totally disconnected from reality and a lot of time in their hands, seeking validation from fellow commentators in ultra conservative cyberspace forums.
Reekie, you don't seem to comprehend the difference between making an observation and “making fun of” something. By your own standards, your perpetual whinging, although totally bereft of cleverness, would be (and is) “making fun” of the Macri government and, perhaps unwittingly, the inability of Argentine industry to cope with changing conditions.
Sep 28th, 2016 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But then, we have ample evidence of the lack of a proper sense of humour here in Argentina. It was very much in evidence today in the lower house of the Argie congress, where it looked for a while as though certain of the uncaged and humourless members seemed to be at the point of visiting violence upon their fellows.
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Returning to the science of the matter of damage to the increasingly arid Argie steppe regions [read: desert] and the sub-grade-school level of understanding surrounding the specific regional impacts of volcanic ash from the Hudson eruptions, a good bit of study has been conducted to explain why, on the dry Argentine plains, the conventional juvenile wisdom of ash-as-fertiliser met its match in the Real World, at least for the foreseeable future:
“The trachyandesitic Hudson tephra was rich in potassium, phosphorous, and sulphur However, these elements were mostly locked within crystals and glasses and not available for immediate extraction from soils by plants....”
“Where ash was cultivated into soil, there was greater water retention than in uncultivated ash deposits, but still lower than pre-ashfall levels, leading to increased irrigation requirements.”
“In a moist environment, this [ soil rehabilitation] may take several decades and in a semi-arid [the Argentine rain-shadow steppe] environment up to 1000 years......”
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Sep 28th, 2016 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr. Massot missed the point completely.
He is a humourless and earnest ideologue, too focused on the Marxist message, to see that
these responses are a reaction to Mr Nostrils other posts predicting Northern Hemisphere nuclear holocausts that he contended would leave Patagonia untouched as anything toxic would be stopped by the western mountains and only visited upon Chile.
Poor old fool
It's one of their most cherished myths.
Sep 28th, 2016 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Though they have such a rich, quixotic, and counterproductive mythology.
If this continues rg could have very lonely summer.
Sep 28th, 2016 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Speaking of radiation -- at least yet another form of damaging radiation that is here now and for which we don't have to await an imaginary hypothetical chimerical nuclear event --- the famous ozone hole here over southern Argentina seems to be letting the UV radiation set records, and causing increasing harm.
Sep 28th, 2016 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But wait ! Phenomena taking place outside of Fortress Argentina can't possibly have any impact on this country. After all, we have the Mendoza Rain Shadow to protect us.
“El agujero de ozono del 2015 fue uno de los más grandes de la historia, el vórtice polar aún hoy alcanza una extensión de aproximadamente 18 millones de kilómetros cuadrados, bien por encima del promedio, alcanzando un pico de unos 27 millones de kilómetros cuadrados en los primeros días de octubre. La recuperación total de los valores de ozono se estima para más allá de mediados diciembre” ....
News heading 2015: “Alerta: Anticipan una radiación UV extrema en Argentina en los próximos días”
Looks like MercoPiss carried an article on this last year
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/11/18/tierra-del-fuego-ozone-alert-with-uv-radiation-reaching-extreme-risk-or-harm
Feel the burn.
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Sep 28th, 2016 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2016/07/31/is-obamacare-blameless-in-the-weakest-recovery-since-1949/
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