Record cold and snow across the globe from Des Moines to Boston and from Cuzco to Seoul and Beijing, has global warmists alarmed about cooling. Scrambling to reconcile cold reality with an increasingly unbelievable warming narrative, they flatly lie or concoct illogical contortions that can be downright hilarious. Guardian reporter Annie Kelly offers a case in point. Yesterday, Kelly posted a bona fide laugher in the land of Climategate, claiming that “climate change” and “melting glaciers” are killing children and alpacas in the Peruvian highlands not with heat, mind you, but cold.
Kelly’s subtitle reads, “Climate change is bringing freezing temperatures to poor villages where families have long existed on the margins of survival. Now some must choose whether to save the animals that give them a living, or their children.” On its face, the subtitle may be technically true and seems to signal journalistic progress. After all, it features a British journalist admitting that “climate change” of some variety is actually cooling at least one corner of the globe.
The progress, however, turns out to be fleeting as Kelly quickly wades back into cliched, totally unsupported AGW hyperbole:
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…
None of us wants to children to die of cold. But this is ridiculous. Kelly wails and rants but fails to offer a single shred of evidence of a causal link between global warming (now misleadingly rebranded “climate change”) and freezing temps in the Peruvian highlands. Beyond that, she leaps to the counterfactual conclusion that “success” in Copenhagen — in the form of some misguided, legally binding anti-CO2 pact — would ever warm those highlands even assuming that cold temps in Peru are the product of human activity. But at least Kelly admits that it is the “climate change campaigners” (as opposed to objective scientists) who are pushing the fraud.
Kelly continues:
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….
Kelly is either writing from another planet or wholly ignorant of the cold reality all around her. Setting aside painfully obvious headlines like “Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years,” recent archival temperature readings flatly contradict Kelly’s bald assertion that the globe is “growing ever hotter.” Furthermore, against the backdrop of record cold and snow all around the globe, the notion that “Huancavelica is an anomaly” at best irresponsible nonsense.
Even the most ardent global warming fanatics acknowledge that actual archival temperature readings show the world cooling since 1998. The “world growing ever hotter” line is pure bunk on the basis of recent data alone. Furthermore, proxy-based temperature estimates — based on tree rings, ice cores and such — point to a medieval warming period (“MWP”) significantly hotter than anything we have experience in the last two centuries. (Graphic below.) If these data are correct, the world today is much cooler than it was between 1200 and 1400 AD.
When the global warming industry will finally get their heads out of the clouds and return to Earth is anyone’s guess. Given their propensity for distortion and mischief maybe the world will be better off having them occupied with a theory everyone else — save a few low-wattage British journalists — recognizes as childish nonsense.
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With all this cold, there must be a market somewhere for those red-hot melting glaciers. Maybe in Seoul.
The real anomaly would seem to be in finding thinking members of the media.