This article
in The Guardian serves as just one more piece of proof that proponents
of Anthropogenic Global Warming will take any weather phenomenon
whatsoever and explain it in terms of Global Warming — including the
cold. Mountain dwellers in Peru are now endangered by ever-colder
temperatures, and "climate change" is blamed:
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.
It really looks like someone just tacked a Global Warming lede onto
an unrelated article. No serious attempt is made in the article to
explain the connection. (And no, the world has not been growing hotter
since at least 1998.) In any case, the hyperbole continues:
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.
Simply assume the accuracy of the old carbon consensus, whose
foundational data have been recently called into question. The writer
of this article, or at least the "campaigners" cited, seem to be
implying that there's a switch somewhere that can just change the
temperature and carbon level in a matter of months or years. That's
totally unrealistic. The effects of any Copenhagen agreement on carbon
would not have been felt for many, many years, perhaps decades.
(Although its destruction of American jobs would have been felt
immediately.) The effects of any such agreement on temperature, if any,
would have been even further delayed.