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.
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.
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?
Stopped reading right there.
We are to blame for this, if only we hadn’t changed our lifes to combat global warming. Our changes have had an effect, and that is to cool the world, first the mountaintops.
Or something like that.
And these people expect to be taken seriously...???
Is the writer capable of intelligent thought...???
Cold isn’t killing these people, poverty is.
And it’s the poverty that deranged leftists who hang out at the Guardian would inflict upon the whole world in the name of global socialism if they get their way.
Even deer and wild turkeys have enough sense to migrate to the lowlands when snow starts falling in the mountains.
“Per Peruvian mountain people. Blaming this on global warming is balderdash. There has been a decrease in global temperatures since 1998. The AGW scientists are at a loss to explain this. But if you study history, you will find solar cycles account for this. We may even be in a Maunder Minimum, which preceded the Little Ice Age (which same AGW scientists tried to erase thank you) and which saw peoples in Europe experiencing the same things these people are seeing. The real catastrophe is that politically motivated pseudo-scientists have lead us astray, so we were not able to foresee and prepare for what is happening. Geologists have been warning for a century that we are past due for an Ice Age (we are in an Inter-Glacial period, which usually lasts 10,000 years, and is the source of the last 13,500 years of warming). Many speculate these may come on in a matter of as little as weeks. This is what should be consuming the scientific community. Fortunately a good samaritan released those emails and computer code in time. The AGW scientists should be sued and prosecuted for the conspiracy they foisted on us.
Steve Strong, Texas, USA”
Sent this to the editor
I couldn't even ask her how their cold temps could be blamed on "warming"........duh!
You can't argue with indoctrinated fools.........