Pope Francis claims he has become involved in the Political side of Global Warming because of his concern for the poor, yet seems blind to the suffering of some of the toughest poor people in the world, who live at high altitudes in South America. Where Global Warming suggests those high places should be warming they have been suffering this winter, as I already described in my post here:
“A million” mountain livestock dying of cold in Peru and Bolivia
Some will blame man for the death of livestock at high altitudes, suggesting that man is always to blame. They will suggest it was human foolishness and greed that led to exploiting nature at too high an altitude, and therefore man deserved the punishment of having his non-native and invasive cows and sheep frozen. In the case of native alpacas, man will be accused of herding them in an unnatural way.
Therefore it might be good to look at the behavior of a natural animal, the guanaco, which is the wild version of a llama, and was the hereditary stock from which Native Americans “unnatually” bred the llamas they used for meat and clothing. The guanaco is an animal splendidly adapted to high altitudes.Guanaco are amazing, able to graze as high as 13,000 feet above sea level. Perhaps they could go higher, but there is nothing growing higher. Their blood has four times as many red blood cells as human blood in each drop, which allows them to survive at high altitudes, and because they are relatives of camels they have a camel-like ability to go without water. In fact in parts of the Atacama Desert where a year can pass without rain the native Guanaco survive basically on fog blowing in off the sea and making lichen damp.
Obviously it is an animal superbly adapted to its environment, and one would never expect this to happen:
These two guanacos died standing up, while crossing through a mountain pass, in the Popes’s homeland of Argentina. However perhaps the Pope can’t be bothered scanning the Argentinian tabloids any more, especially a “pro-Peronist” tabloid such as El Tribuno.
http://www.eltribuno.info/encuentran-dos-guanacos-congelados-pie-san-juan-n600869
The pity is that by being disconnected from the common people of South America he claims to care so much for, and by being so connected to the elite and politically correct La-di-da of Europe who wring their hands about Global Warming that doesn’t happen, the Pope is in danger of losing touch with the very poor people the Catholic Church was once famous for caring for. He will look like royalty flouncing about in extravagant clothing, calling the salt of the earth the “Hoi polloi “. And the poor do notice such disdain, as their livestock freeze in the high Andes, and they lose their ability to feed and clothe themselves.
(A Hat-tip to Argirls Diamantis, who can be bothered with scanning South American tabloids, and who sent me this news.)
Wow. Frozen in their tracks, they appear to have not even succumbed to the Cold sleep that strikes the hypothermic afflicted. Unless they sleep standing up?
My guess is that the snow was deep and hard to wade through, and they became exhausted. Then they couldn’t topple over because the snow held them up. But that is a sheer guess. In any case, it was obviously an unusual situation.
Reblogged this on the WeatherAction News Blog and commented:
The paucity of the political papacy laid bare. Thank you Caleb and Argiris for drawing attention to this moral flaw.
Thanks.
Science apparently became a propaganda tool of totalitarian world rule after WWII, as George Orwell predicted in the book he started writing in 1946: “Nineteen Eighty-Four“
Click to access STALIN’S_SCIENCE.pdf
Even four hundred years earlier, popes did not approve of the fountain of energy Copernicus reported at the gravitational center of the solar system in 1543.
Dr. Omanuel,
In the name of Freedom of Speech I will allow you to plug your site this one time. However if you attempt to clutter this site with plugs, like you do over at the Real Science site, I’ll be forced to snip your comments.
People who accept the idea the sun is made of hydrogen can perhaps benefit from being forced to explain why they believe what they believe one time. 70 times a week is too much.
Thank you for your patience. I am convinced that loss of integrity in political, economic and scientific areas are related but may be wrong
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/08/18/23-nations-around-the-world-where-stock-market-crashes-are-already-happening/
I agree that the coming winter may be unusually cold because solar activity is declining.
Where’s my daily fix … I’m having withdrawal symptoms!!
Have u chained yourself to a tree in front of a pipeline construction bulldozer?
Never mind … I found it 🙂
Sorry to be so late updating. We are in the midst of high humidity and temperatures over 90 F. Even simple tasks are absurdly hard, and simple politeness is difficult, even with ones better side.
I am going to suck up the heat where I can find it, for, after a mild September, next winter is looking like another nasty one.
Believe it or not, with temperatures high I’m stacking firewood.
Not yet!
It wasn’t the lateness at all … it was all down to me looking for ice blog on the guanaco post. It was stinko hot here last week … too hot to work for long since even with our crazy low humidity (we hit 12 % one day) the heat just drained your energy. Or at least so it felt.
Calgary’s temperatures have rolled over and started that long drop into the frozen wasteland we will be come December …. on a positive note my ski hill opens in 100 sleeps 🙂
It is a chilly 10 C right now but to warm up to a nice day.