Peru Hit With Severe Global Warming

It's now fall, pushing into winter, in the southern hemisphere and the 'fall crops' should be coming in ... But. Winter has come early and with a vengeance since March, which would be the northern hemisphere equivalent of September.

Climate Change: hail and freezing temperatures forecast for Puno and southern highlands

Climate change continues to wreck havoc in Peru’s southern altiplano, where the arrival of freezing temperatures since March — almost three months earlier than usual — have killed more than a dozen people.

The extreme cold has claimed the lives of 16 people so far in Puno, and 5,053 others are suffering from respiratory ailments, most of them children under 5, Elsa Paredes, of Puno’s Regional Health Institute, told Enlace Nacional.

Moderate hail storms are predicted over the next several days over a wide area of the southern department of Puno, according to Senamhi, the national weather bureau, and temperatures are expected to drop in June, July and August to as low as -27º C (-16º F) in areas that lie above 4,000m (13,000 ft). The cold is also affecting the departments of Cusco and Arequipa.

There are reports of alpacas and guanacos, which are not protected in barns or sheds, dying in the higher areas of the altiplano.

Climate change is the 'new word' after it became obvious to the UN that global warming wasn't going to survive the northern hemisphere winter. we now have worldwide crop failures starting in the southern hemisphere.

Of course the climate change they are talking about is caused by the quite sun, which is still resting from the last sunspot cycle and shows no signs of initiating the next cycle. This is the exact reasons behind the last mini-ice age.

Quinua is a cereal like crop grown for it's seeds and leaves and is a primary human food crop of the Andean region of South America.