Pardon us for stating the obvious, but it’s winter in South America. A damn cold winter.
People in tropical Bolivia are freezing their culos off. The frigid temps have killed an estimated 6 million fish, alligators, turtles and river dolphins.
They’ve also killed any semblance of balanced reporting.
Nature.com has details of the devastating deaths:
Scientists who have visited the affected rivers say the event is the biggest ecological disaster Bolivia has known, and, as an example of a sudden climatic change wreaking havoc on wildlife, it is unprecedented in recorded history.
Got that? It’s the biggest ecological disaster in the history of Bolivia. It’s unprecedented. Never happened before in history.
With such extreme climatic events potentially becoming more common due to climate change, scientists are hurrying to coordinate research into the impact, and how quickly the ecosystem is likely to recover.
Aha! Climate change is the culprit. So to review, the coldest temperatures in Bolivian history are caused by global warming. We should have known.
The blame lies, at least indirectly, with a mass of Antarctic air that settled over the Southern Cone of South America for most of July. The prolonged cold snap has also been linked to the deaths of at least 550 penguins along the coasts of Brazil and thousands of cattle in Paraguay and Brazil, as well as hundreds of people in the region.
Water temperatures in Bolivian rivers that normally register about 15 ˚C during the day fell to as low as 4 ˚C.
Hugo Mamani, head of forecasting at Senamhi, Bolivia’s national weather centre, confirms that the air temperature in the city of Santa Cruz fell to 4 ˚C this July, a low beaten only by a record of 2.5 ˚C in 1955.
First they boggle our minds by saying that the unprecedented cold was caused by global warming. Then, as if that weren’t confusing enough, they tell us that it’s not really unprecedented because it was even colder back in 1955.
All future “climate change” reports should be accompanied by a disclaimer that says, “Reporters may have difficulty keeping a straight face while telling these outlandish stories, but it generally gets easier with practice.”
Source: Nature.com
