Oh Brother. Peru Mountain People Face Extinction Due to RECORD COLD… Global Warming Blamed
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, January 3, 2010, 10:30 PM
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Almost 250 children under the age of five died in a wave of intensely cold weather in Peru this July.
Will these junk scientists ever stop?
Peruvian mountain people face extinction due to unusually cold winters the past 4 years.
Global Warming is blamed.
The Guardian reported:
For alpaca farmer Ignacio Beneto Huamani and his young family, life in the Peruvian Andes, at almost 4,700m above sea level, has always been a struggle against the elements. His village of Pichccahuasi, in Peru’s Huancavelica region, is little more than a collection of small thatched shelters and herds of alpaca surrounded by beautiful, yet bleakly inhospitable, mountain terrain.
The few hundred people who live here are hardened to poverty and months of sub-zero temperatures during the long winter. But, for the fourth year running, the cold came early. First their animals and now their children are dying and in such escalating numbers that many fear that life in the village may be rapidly approaching an end.
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.
A consequence is that Quechua-speaking farmers and their families, who have managed to subsist for centuries at high altitude, believe they may not make it through the next southern winter.
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John Talleos commented:
And they say it and don’t know how absurd they sound. Blind ideology even affects what they say
John in the Land of Louis commented:
Well, the word of an actress is who wasn’t there and isn’t there sure isn’t a testimonial. No?
Guy commented:
Give me strength …..
wanumba commented:
4,700 m = 4700 X 3 = roughly 14,000 feet
Damn straight it’s cold there.
The upper atmosphere is COLD, and because it’s cold it doesn’t hold hardly any WATER VAPOR, so it’s DRY. Water absorbs heat and releases it slowly, less water, less heat.
Don’t suppose it’s something ELSE, like poor HYGIENE or perhaps NO VACCINATIONS.
WHy that would be Occam’s Razor or in modern parlance: The Scooby-Do approach. It looks supernatural, but it always turns out to be someone trying to steal something… in this case taxpayer money.
Buffalobob commented:
The warmest are certifiably insane.
I’m waiting for a hollywood celebrity to look into the camera and ask us to send $19.95 to help pay for heating pads to save the children.
Robert commented:
Very cold in Peru, people dying,
presumably last June.
” increasingly cold conditions in their own microclimate”
Meanwhile in the Northern Hemisphere:
Pretty cold in the US, freeze warnings in Florida.
Cold in Europe.
Record cold in China.
We’re experiencing some pretty big
“microclimates” of “cold conditions”.
jorgen commented:
Of course global warming (and Bush) is to blame: USA has global warming, so other places obviously must get colder to even out. Obarmy should send some of the global warming we have here in January to the poor people in Peru.
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Jim -
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Thanks!
Boogy commented:
Obummer’s State of the Union Address Draft:
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TQ commented:
Umm, ok, let me get this straight. They live up in the mountains surrounded by glaciers–which, btw, is a dumb place to set up shop to begin with. Unless you’re putting in a modern ski resort. They’re not.
So the glaciers melted, cause it was too warm. Instead of allowing them to grow more crops to feed themselves, the glacial melting has now made it too cold. But the glaciers are still gone, even though it is really cold. Too cold for glaciers. And so now they can’t grow any food.
So either someone has discovered a new quirk in the universe whereby rising temperatures make things colder, or, warmists and their fan boys (and girls) are a bunch of complete loons.
Lisa Gilmer commented:
“climate change” is the perfect name because you can blame everything on it since the friggin’ climate IS always changing.
For a laugh, you all might find this link as hysterically funny as I do. Last count, 690 things blamed on ‘global warming’ by a guy in the UK. So in case you run out of things to blame on AGW? Just ask this guy!?
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
Agent99 commented:
Lisa Gilmer WOW!! Thank you! Acne, alligators in the Thames. …. (It’s alphabetical and enormous) ….
BigAlSouth commented:
Seen the latest commercial for the RICO outfit who calls itself the WWF (World Wildlife Fund)? Noah Wiley, with those puppy dog eyes, telling all the kiddies that the Polar Bears are near extinction and “most” will die in their lifetime unles the parents pony up $16 guilt free dollars a month.
I liked those guys better when they were the World Wrestling Federation. I guess they found out there was more money in Polar Bear Guilt.
Daniel commented:
Agent99, the audio of my interview is available on my site. (If you didn’t see my earlier message to you elsewhere on this board.)
Beto commented:
There is an old wisdom for this argument
Heads I Win….
…..Tails you Lose
templar knight commented:
I wonder if it ever occured to these idiots who write these articles to actually check the climate. The climate is cooling, has been for a few years now, and what we see going on here is a result of global cooling, which is much more devestating than warming.
The northern hemisphere is suffering in one of the coldest winters in quite a long time, and the warmist jerks still can’t see it. Cut them off from the government tit and they will change their tune. These people should all be unemployed, beginning with the professors at these colleges who made up this bunk.
Neo commented:
Time has run out for politicians to claim credit for stopping “Global Warming”
wanumba commented:
Noticed that the villages earn their income from alpaca. Cold weather makes for heavy coats.
Farming at 14,000 ft is pretty much zero normally, so they must trade (barter) and buy for most of what they need.
Probably burned up what few trees there at at those altitudes for cooking fires.
If the global warming fanatics were actually kind folks who actually CARED about remote villagers at 14,000 ft, they’d have made sure the poor people could get cheap, plentiful gas cookers and gas supplies.
Don Rodrigo commented:
Global Warming is a Crock!
Doodah! Doodah!
Al Gore Sounds Like Mr. Spock!
Oh Dee Doo Dah Day!
CDR M commented:
So the WWF says all polar bears will die in your parents lifetime? Well duh, the average lifespan of a polar bear is 15-18 years. Nice scam you have there.
JDubya commented:
Okay, honestly I did not read the article. Reason? Peru is below the Equator, which would mean that Peru is in Summer right now.
ice9 commented:
Hoft no post criticism. Means argument weak.
ice9
Gary Ruppert commented:
The fact is, liberals are so stupid. Why do they ignore the evidence? It is cold out so there cannot be global warming, and Al Gore is fat. Liberal bias media, too.
Ken commented:
The writer of this story leaves the impression that people are freezing in sub-zero conditions right now. It summer in Peru and the Weather Channel has the area at a balmy 60 degrees even at 10,000 feet. If so many people are dying and this is a humanitarian disaster then why is this Guardian story the only one that mentions it. Every other blog and news source cites this story as their source. I have seen no news source independently verify this story.