The lowest winter temperatures in Peru for over 50 years

[malaise]

is taking a heavy toll on the children and Alpacas. Over 400 people have died and the alpacas can't drink from frozen streams.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10771615

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90780/91345/7082347.html
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Northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere are unbearably hot and cold, and people in both hemispheres have been tormented by rare extreme weathers, and governments in various countries have taken measures to cope with the extremely harsh weather conditions.

Argentina in the Southern Hemisphere, with most of its areas in the subtropical and temperate regions, is usually relatively warm in the second quarter of the year and seldom hits sub-zero temperatures. These months, however, abnormal cold has chilled Argentina and snow has reportedly been falling heavily in a broad swath of the county since July 12. Blustery weather has continued in the capital of Buenos Aires, close to the coldest temperatures ever recorded there. It recorded its lowest temperatures in a decade on July 16. Mercury fell to -1.5 degrees Celsius there that day.

Fatalities due to the cold wave and to pneumonia in Peru total 409 at present and half of them are children.… The death toll started to increase in May, when temperature began to drop, according to Peruvian Health Minister Oscar Ugarte. This year's cold spell in southern Peru has killed more than 110 people, according to RPP radio station, and 65 of them died of severe cold there.

Furthermore, herds of the prestigious Peruvian sheep or Alpaca have died due to sever cold spells, and close to half a million Alpaca in a local province are suffering because of freezing cold and food shortages.

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.

[malaise]

3. Good Morning Uncle Joe

:hi:

[Uncle Joe]

7. Good morning, malaise.

:hi:

[SharonAnn]

17. Chile also has record cold. La Nina cycle according to my relatives.

[Uncle Joe]

18. I also believe that La Nina or El Nino would cause a wider swing in weather variability but it seems

logical to me that global warming climate change; would have an aggravating or distorting affect on those ocean dynamics as it does with most everything else.

I honestly don't see how it couldn't, global warming climate change would be the flu to La Nina and El Nino's chills and fever.

[Uncle Joe]

19. P.S. Around the 7:30 mark of this video is evidence of what I'm talking about.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x489965

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

--Robert Frost

That gentleman knew a few things.

[malaise]

5. One of the great men who loved planet earth

"I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
:hi:

[Uncle Joe]

9. Speaking of fire and ice.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4477523

Heat wave in Moscow near to reach absolute record

[malaise]

13. We were watching BBC on the weekend and saw

Russians in bikinis swimming in glacial lakes.

They are really suffering this summer.

[MindPilot]

4. My furnace still comes on in the morning

and I have a 12-foot tall tomato plant in my back yard.

That climate change thingy may be real. \sarcasm

[malaise]

6. A 12 foot tall tomato plant

That's huge. :D

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Climate change will result in more weather extremes.

We're seeing that.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. Look at this Flood in Saudi Arabia this spring and past fall

They also had a flood in the fall that killed 100 people


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8384832.stm


These floods are never seen before records for that sand kingdom.

[upi402]

12. Is there tracking of climate change and weather abnormalities?

I hear soooo many anecdotes from people all over the world of freakish weather. It needs to be tracked, but I guess we'd never see it on TV news would we?


If a tree fell in the forest...

[malaise]

14. Wow

They've fugged up the entire planet. :hi:

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. By the way that's a freeway not a river

Yeah, Global Climate Change

Maybe my winter will be a little warmer but I doubt it.

[jimlup]

11. I was in Peru this past June...

I'm not surprised that people are dying. The poverty in Peru is extreme and the Cusco region which I visited is suffering very badly from the current recession. The people were desperate for my tourist $'s. Things were cheap but I felt bad and tipped heavily.

[Gaedel]

15. Peru

Going back many hundreds of years, weather in Peru is also impacted quite heavily by the La Nina/El Nino cycle which has destroyed civilizations there.