Deep Freeze Kills Dozens of Manatees - Local News on wokv.com

More than 100 manatee carcasses have been counted in Florida waters since the first of the year.

And most died because of cold stress.

Here is additional information from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission:

Biologists report that the preliminary cause of death for 77 of these animals is cold stress. Although pending final review, the number of cold-stress deaths exceeds the previous record of 56 for that category in a single year, which was set in 2009.

Pinellas County Extension offers “The Basics of Climate Change” webinar (1/29) | Daily Loaf

Learn from Mary Campbell, Extension Director and Urban Sustainability Agent, why we have record setting cold weather in the middle of global warming and the basic facts about climate change. Join Pinellas County Extension for this introductory program on how it impacts Florida and our coastal regions.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Rubio passes [global warming hero] Crist in new Quinnipiac poll

Granted, it’s still within the margin of error, but Governor Charlie Crist has to feel pretty desperate at this point to cling to the bottom edge of the MOE. Even Quinnipiac sounds surprised by the results, but Florida Republicans have moved inexorably away from Crist as the governor’s attempts to support Barack Obama and his Porkulus plan laid an egg in the Sunshine State.

People die on cold streets of Europe: Cambodia News

In Ukraine, the cold weather has killed 256 Ukrainians since December 18th, many of them homeless.

Colorado: Growers were caught unprepared

Grape and fruit growers have generations of experience dealing with spring frosts, which often come when young buds are at their most vulnerable to cold damage.

But the sub-zero cold snap of December that killed grapes and vines across the valley caught many growers unprepared
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State viticulturist Horst Caspari of the Colorado State University Orchard Mesa Research Station said a near-total loss of grapes in Delta County in 2007 was similar in scope to the expected loss this year in Mesa County.

“In 2007, we lost pretty much all of Delta County (and) the yield impact on the state as a whole is about the same as what we lost this year,” Caspari said.