The headline reads, “India: Pashmina nomads are succumbing to climate change,” which, in today’s world, is shorthand for ‘manmade global warming.’
However, if you bother to read the article itself, you find that the real problem is heavy snowfall and extremely harsh winters.
You learn that 25,000 goats were killed after heavy snowfall deprived the animals of their fodder. And you learn that extreme cold killed thousands of goats.
Here are excerpts from the article (emphasis added):
23 Nov 2018 – The highland goatherds of Changthang in Ladakh are gradually abandoning their nomadic life as the Pashmina goats famed for their wool die in large numbers due to a changing climate.
In recent years, thousands of Pashmina goats… have perished in the Ladakh Himalayas due to extreme cold in winter and lack of fodder associated with climate change.
The nomads of Ladakh’s Changthang region, who rear the Pashmina goats and have traditionally braved the cold winters, complain of extremely harsh winters and dry summers, which has forced some of them to migrate to and settle in Leh city.
The Ladakh region of Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir is part of the Tibetan plateau, which more than 14,000 ft above sea level. Tibet is often called the roof of the world. Little grows in the parts of this cold desert, including Ladakh, where the temperature can drop to minus 35 degrees Celsius.
The Changthang region of the larger Tibetan Plateau does not normally witness heavy snowfall. But that has changed in recent years. In 2013, heavy snowfall deprived the Changpas of fodder for their animals resulting into death of an estimated 25,000 goats as per the records of district sheep husbandry office of Leh. Thousands of goats, the district officials said, were also killed in 2008 due to extreme cold.
“In the past decade I have seen such heavy snowfall three times,” said Bihkit Angmo, 53, who rears goats in Changthang. In Kharnak, a nomadic settlement 173 km east of Leh… nomads said this new trend of heavy snowfall in winters “has left us quite worried.”
https://indiaclimatedialogue.net/2018/11/23/pashmina-nomads-are-succumbing-to-climate-change/
Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for this link
Comment from Argiris:
This new trend of heavy snowfall in winters “has left us quite worried.” Here they try to blame the new trend of heavy snowfall in winters on “climate change”, that is the new word for global warming. Climate is changing alright, but not for the warmer, but for the colder.
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