Winter Takes Its Toll On Area Wildlife - Omaha News Story - KETV Omaha

Dead fish are popping up on area lakes as the ice begins to thaw. Experts say it’s something they expected.

"You get a longer winter like we had this winter with a lot more snow cover, there is going to be a lot more mortality,” said Daryl Bauer with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. “You throw all that snow on top of the ice, that is just another blanket that reflects more sunlight, then you are more likely to get low oxygen.”

The lack of sunlight means aquatic plant life isn’t producing oxygen and the fish are literally suffocating, said Bauer. He said it happens every year, but this winter’s arctic-like conditions could mean even more fish kills.

Energy and Environment Radicals Form Circular Firing Squads

A number of recent articles point out the absurd positions that some of the more radical advocates...from both ends of the political spectrum...have found themselves in.

BBC News - Chair announced for climate probe

[But they're not even climatologists!]: CRU SCIENCE REVIEW PANEL
Chair - Ron Oxburgh FRS (Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool)
Huw Davies, professor of physics at the Institute for Atmospheric & Climate Science at ETH Zurich
Kerry Emanuel, professor of meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Lisa Graumlich, directs the school of natural resources and the environment at Arizona University
David Hand, professor of statistics in the department of mathematics at Imperial College London
Herbert Huppert, professor of theoretical geophysics at the University of Cambridge
Michael Kelly, Prince Philip professor of technology at the University of Cambridge