Posted on 01/03/2010 5:04:11 PM PST by muawiyah
But, for the fourth year running, the cold came early. First their animals and now their children are dying.....in ...... escalating numbers.....
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Pretty clear the AGW and GW activists forgot to talk to the people who live there ~ things are going "the other way".
This is how the Ice Age comes ~ a frozen mountain top at a time, then a valley filled with ice, and then the flow that forms vast icesheets 2 miles high.
before I read the article I joked to myself they would blame global warming....
Bet these folks would welcome some climate change.
Peru is all south of the equator. Must be summer there now.
This cooling is clearly from warming.
You have to admire her ability to hold on to a delusion. Even as people all around her are dying of cold, she continues to convince herself, through chattering teeth, that the world is getting warmer. Next she'll be wearing a bikini in snow up to her knees. Shouldn't these people be institutionalized at some point? They could be a danger to themselves.
But think of how small these people’s carbon footprint is.
Living at 13,000 feet isn’t a picnic in any weather.
This is how the Ice Age comes ~ a frozen mountain top at a time, then a valley filled with ice, and then the flow that forms vast icesheets 2 miles high.
Well, just like I don't think we're going to fry ourselves during Global Warming, I don't think we're going to freeze ourselves into oblivion during any kind of ice age of Global Cooling... LOL...
It all happens with great regularity -- both Global Warming and Global Cooling, all natural events in our earth's climate system. It's all normal and within prior parameters on this planet. So, no one needs to get all hyped-up about it all.
The only thing that we've been fighting here on Free Republic is this idea of "Anthropogenic Global Warming" which is phoney-baloney science which is hyped for political reasons... :-)
“Four hours’ drive away in the larger community of Incahuasi, a health clinic is full of women and children waiting to see a visiting nurse. Helen dos Santos trained in nearby Ayacucho, but unlike most other locally trained health workers has stayed to work in the region. Now she spends her week travelling on foot between villages, walking for up to five hours a day.
“It’s always been poor here, but now the situation is getting critical,” she says. She points to the 20 or so children lined up in the waiting room. “All of these children are malnourished, some very dangerously so, and winter is still five months away.”
Golly Gee. People living like they did in Appalachia 100 years ago. Cures on us for not bringing in the roads and tourists.
In a world growing ever hotter, Huancavelica is an anomaly. These communities, living at the edge of what is possible, face extinction because of increasingly cold conditions in their own microclimate, which may have been altered by the rapid melting of the glaciers.
The rapid melting of the glaciers made it colder and dryer, so the alpacas are both freezing and dying of thirst? I'm not sure that I understand the logic of that.
It’s the Guardian, everything is about global warming there.
absolutely mind boggling that the author would attribute freezing in the andes to the failure of copenhagen. when will it stop? what will it take for people to realize that “global warming” isnt happening as they thought?
That someone could write something this monumentally stupid torques the brain of thinking people so hard it's impossible to respond.
“Climate change campaigners and development NGOs say that the failure of Copenhagen has signed the death warrant for hundreds of thousands of the world’s poorest and that a quarter of a million children will die before world leaders meet again to try to thrash out another deal at the United Nations next climate change conference in Mexico in December. Among them may be these children of the high mountains.”
When I come upon this paragraph my reading of the article was over. This is journalism?
And they will continue to say "It's Global Warming !"
Either way we are a good 5,000 years into the next Ice Age right now ~ give or take a thousand years.
There is a period of time called the Greek Dark Age. It started about 3200 years ago. Then it ended. Possibly the vast expansion of rice culture (and the consequent growth of termite nests) in the western Zhou Dynasty may have produced enough greenhouse gases (in the form of water vapor from irrigated fields, methane from the termites, etc) to turn things around just enough to offset the coming of the ice. American Indians were agriculturally quite aggressive during that period as well.
This business of a mountain top in Peru cooling down suggests we aren't doing enough to keep the Earth warm enough to hold back the ice. Improved rice varieties which require less water (and less irrigation) could very well account for the whole thing.
Stopped reading right there.
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