If it’s cold in Peru, it’s global warming
Peru’s mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter, says the Guardian.
Never mind that Peru is in the Southern Hemisphere and is not winter there now, the world is freezing and the Guardian is spinning:
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.
Say again?
The glaciers melted because of global warming and that made it too cold in Peru?
As Don puts it,
Earlier and colder winters are now defined as global warming.
The Guardian would do better to realize that what is endangering the lives of the poor people in the Andes is not global warming, but factors that the Guardian mentions in its own article:
a lack of basic health services, animal diseases, rising food prices and a declining availability of water.
All of these factors are man-made. “Global warming” is not.
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January 4th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
One feature of ancient myth was that it had no larger philosophy. The other, was that it was used by the ignorant to explain anything that was either too difficult or too painful for them to explain away.
Toss in there the hanging spectre of “there’ll be an apocalypse if you don’t do as I say”, and you’ve got an elemental, primitive cult: global warming.
January 5th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Joe, you just described organized religion too!
January 5th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
I could be paddling a rowboat down Market Street in San Francisco after the poles have melted, and there will still be conservative fanatics who deny that humans are responsible for Global Warming or that it is even real. I invite you to my web-pages devoted to raising awareness on this urgent issue: http://pltcldscsn.blogspot.com/2009/12/conservatives-still-deny-global-warming.html
January 5th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
I could be paddling a rowboat down Market Street in San Francisco after the poles have melted
Let me know when you do, David.
Right now I’m freezing my butt off here in Princeton NJ
January 7th, 2010 at 1:43 am
Let’s see, Mars has warmed up as well David so that must be man’f fault as well since that darn Mars Rover must be pumping out a TON of CO2, right?