Stories like this one don’t help the cause of making people believe we should become hysterical about global warming. Apparently a part of Peru is growing ever colder, threatening the people who live there. The cause? Global warming! Aaugh! From the story:
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.
But see, the world isn’t growing ever hotter. There has been a pause in the previous warming trend for the last decade or more. Indeed, stories such as this support the hypothesis that warming and colding are primarily driven by the activity of the sun, which impacts the currents, and we are in a time of low solar activity–which may explain the arctic snap we are experiencing in the Northern Hemisphere. In any event, climate is very complex, and warming hysterics only give themselves black eyes when they try to convince us that every difficult weather condition–hot and cold–is caused by man-caused global warming.
The article also tries to panic the herd by focusing on the serious health problems the children of the village experience from the cold, a real problem for the people, no question, and opines that the failure (thankfully) of Copenhagen will cause more poor children to die. Actually, I think it is the reverse. The failure of Copenhagen–long may it continue–may allow destitute countries the latitude to develop their economies. Increasing prosperity is the best way to help the poor children of the world.
January 4th, 2010 | 11:29 am
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January 4th, 2010 | 2:08 pm
“support the hypothesis…driven by the activity of the sun”
We are at very low sun levels and the temperature is STILL warmer – particularly in the polar regions at night.
Pick up a science textbook, take a class, subscribe to a science journal, do whatever it takes. Here’s something to start with:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm
The level of scientific ignorance on this blog ought to be embarrassing.
Wesley J. Smith Reply:
January 4th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Yhe arrogance of some commenters is what is really embarrassing. And telling. You can’t cower doubters with such hubris. If it is true, the hysterics are going to have to open up the books, debate all comers, and prove it with transparency and civility.
January 4th, 2010 | 6:24 pm
Hah! I saw that article this morning. Hilarious and sad at the same time.
January 5th, 2010 | 1:41 pm
I see “David” tried to “straighten us out” with his condescension.
David, a few weeks before ‘Climategate,’ a group of eminent scientists, all AGW’ers, tried to persuade the more adamant AGW activists to stop equating long term normal climate cycles with ‘evidence of global warming’; then the CRU hacker struck. The rest is hystery . . . er, history.
The possibility that the climate may be warming has merit, if you consider that we’ve doing doing a slow crawl out of the so-called ‘Little Ice Age’ for some time. But what does that have to do with supposed human-caused ‘warming?’ And, as for the possible ‘warming’ that may be going on, how is that ‘catastrophic?’ The notion of impending doom is what drives the policy makers who have hijacked whatever serious climate science has been done, and have twisted it beyond recognition for their own nefarious purposes.
Humans in the temperate zones have lived in milder versions of the temperate climate within recorded history, and suffered no catastrophies as a result. So, David, while you’re telling us to ‘pick up a science book,’ how about you pick up some history texts that address warming and cooling throughout history? Please note while you’re reading that the Industrial Revolution was of insufficient size and impact to effect greenhouse emmissions throughout most of the Industrial Revolution’s existence. An industrial ‘zone’ covering only one quadrant of the northern hemisphere that straddled the North Atlantic wasn’t going to warm anything.
Also, as to the ‘science’ in some of those more recent textbooks you may be trying to recommend us, some of them are still displaying the discredited “hockey stick” graph that completely eliminated the so-called Medieval Warming Period. The Medieval Warming Period has also been conspicuously missing from Wikipedia because of deliberate censorship by AGW activists who appropriated the climate content of that site. If certain scientists and most activists insist on being corrupt and dishonest, it kind of makes it harder ofr you to lecture us, doesn’t it?
January 6th, 2010 | 7:18 pm
Does anyone remember about 30 years ago when we we suppose to be in fear of the coming Ice Age? Just throwing THAT one out there………….
January 6th, 2010 | 10:22 pm
I’m told there’s a Youtube out there with Leonard Nimoy’s voice narrating about the coming Ice Age. You should find it, Wesley, and put it up!
January 12th, 2010 | 9:58 am
There are people out there who suppossedly are scientists who desperately want the simple minded in our midst to believe that heat can cause freezing, defying the laws of thermodynamics.
Tell me David when was the last time your hot cup of tea developed frost on the cup’s edge.
You’re just the type of person I think would be interested in buying my 5 acres on the moon.
Going cheap!!
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