Tribe Attacks Another Tribe
By Paul Homewood
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/24/peru-uncontactedtribe.html
Tribe Attacks
From the “You could not make it up dept”, comes news that global warming has led to cooling in Peru, which in turn has led to one tribe raiding another tribe. This is apparently something that has never happened before.
From Al Gore Jazeera:
Climate change may be forcing increasingly large groups of uncontacted tribes out of Peru’s Amazon, officials said as advocates for the tribes reported that riverboats were sent to evacuate a remote village after a raid by members of an uncontacted tribe.
A group of about 200 men from the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe, armed with bows and arrows, arrived in the community of Monte Salvado on Thursday, according to Survival International, an indigenous rights group. The men raided the village, taking weapons and destroying the homes.
Most of the villagers, members of the Yine tribe, were in the regional capital of Puerto Maldonado for local elections during the incident, but about 55 Yine members had taken refuge in a guard post and would be evacuated on Tuesday, Patricia Balbuena, Peru’s vice-minister of intercultural affairs, told the Guardian.
Although there has been a series of incidents that saw members of uncontacted tribes emerging from the jungles in small numbers in recent years, the size of the all-male group that raided Monte Salvado was unusual, officials said according to the Guardian.
“We’ve never heard reported such a large movement of uncontacted people,” Lorena Prieto, director of Peru’s office of Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact, told the Guardian. Prieto was helping to coordinate the evacuation.
Balbuena said climate change may have triggered the latest incident, as it has caused abrupt drops in temperatures in that area of the southeast Amazon.
Farmers in other areas of Peru have echoed concerns about colder-than-usual temperatures. During the latest climate change conference, or COP20, held in Lima this month, indigenous communities living in the Andes Mountains said global warming is threatening the biodiversity they have worked so hard to protect.
“It’s a terrible irony that indigenous people, who are the ones who have done least to cause climate change, are not potentially the ones most affected,” Jonathan Mazower, media director for Survival International, said in a report on climate change and tribal peoples.
Villages have been attacking their neighbours ever since mankind came down from the trees and began to walk upright. But as you know our friends in the global warming community are taking this one incident and assuming it a trend and that it is caused by climate change. Actually in this case they believe its caused by global cooling.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
As we all know, climate change happens, and sometimes it is not favourable. If severe enough it could be one of the things influencing wars. But as you say, it’s been happening for a very long time. Recall Joseph telling Pharaoh the meaning of his dreams is Genesis, seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. Climate change has been happening for a very long time.
Bad example. Climate is the overall envelope, not a cluster of years. Pharaoh’s famine and plenty were both within bounds of what had been going on for millennia.
Climate is the statistics of weather over a chosen period. You can change climate over 14 years, 30 years, 50 years, whatever interval you chose. You can use instrumental, you can tack instrumental on to proxies (for a nice hockey stick), etc. Climate is so poorly defined at this stage that climate can be anything it needs to be for the purpose of pushing the agenda. The length for the “pause” to be signficant kept getting longer as temperatures remained relatively flat. That’s the nice thing about statistics and vague definitions.
Since we use temperature anomalies, at some point, these are going to fall to zero—they appear to be in the thousandths right now—because if we move a 30 year period forward, as was stated to be the case in many of the calculations, as the world warms, the change from the 30 year period becomes smaller. The method itself will elimate the change, unless one adjusts past temperatures down or current ones up. Again, the whole thing is a mess.
” … in this case they believe it’s caused by global cooling”
Ed Davey must bear some responsibility! He’s firced us to save too much CO2.
‘Forced’ not firced.
Paul,
Thank you for pointing out the most egregious Climate Clown Bull Shit!
‘Climate change’ as an excuse for one tribe attacking another is even more far-fetched than this one:
http://www.emirates247.com/crime/region/donkey-rape-sparks-tribal-massacre-in-yemen-2012-05-21-1.459649
It says
The problem snowballed, so it must have had something to do with climate change!!
Then there’s this one!
http://www.emirates247.com/offbeat/crazy-world/pet-dog-shoots-his-master-2014-12-27-1.574636
Ah, common, cut Wyoming a break! Just because some careless fool left a dog and rifle in a truck, must it be plastered everywhere for the world to see? It happens.
Ah yes, different tribes…. you mean like Celtic v. Rangers?
Global Warming? Global Cooling? What difference does it make…It’s all your fault! /Sarc
If they are an “Uncontacted” tribe, how do we know they even exist, and why have they been given a name?
Good question.