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Deadly aftermath of South-American cold spell

Posted By Walter Schneider On August 5, 2010 @ 6:41 am In Censorship, Wildlife, Weather, Climate Change | No Comments

All of South America experienced a very harsh cold spell in mid-July that killed more than 400 people (mostly children), much life stock and many alpacas. (See [1] Historical Cold Snap Freezes South America, July 21, 2010)

Now another consequence of the extreme cold spell emerges.

BoliviaBella.com

1 Million Fish Dead in Bolivian Ecological Disaster

(3 Aug. 2010 - Update: The number of dead fish and other water-dependent wildlife has increased to about 6 million.)

Over 1 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in numerous Bolivian rivers in the three eastern/southern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija. The extreme cold front that hit Bolivia in mid-July caused water temperatures to dip below the minimum temperatures river life can tolerate. As a consequence, rivers, lakes, lagoons and fisheries are brimming with decomposing fish and other creatures….([2] Full Story — make sure to [3] watch the video at the end of the article)

It would be surprising if the fish-die-off would not affect other South-American nations as well.

The mainstream media in the anglo-sphere kept totally silent on the ecological disaster and instead continued all along with raising alarm about catastrophic man-made global warming.


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URLs in this post:
[1] Historical Cold Snap Freezes South America: http://lce.folc.ca/2010/07/21/historical-cold-snap-freezes-south-america/
[2] Full Story: http://www.boliviabella.com/1-million-fish-dead-in-bolivian-ecological-disaster.
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[3] watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWIzUwZ1Spk&feature=player_embedded

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