Saturday, July 24, 2010

Cold winter stress hurts fish populations » Naples Daily News Mobile
In January 2010, Southwest Florida experienced one of the longest stretches of cold weather on record. Because air temperatures dropped below freezing, water temperatures similarly dropped below many native fishes’ tolerance levels. On January 11, 2010, , the Reserve’s water quality monitoring stations revealed that water temperatures bottomed out at 45 degrees farenheight and stayed below 57 degrees rough January 14. Anecdotal reports of dead fish included snook, tarpon, snappers, catfish, ladyfish, mullet, needlefish and mojarras.
Arctic weather kills Paraguayan homeless
A cold front gripping much of South America is taking its toll on the homeless. In Paraguay’s capital city of Asuncion at least 12 people have died of hypothermia as temperatures dropped to minus 10 degrees Celsius.
Money Can’t Buy Green Love « The Daily Bayonet
After Big Green spent a combined $400 million public support is weaker than ever and a major pillar of Obama’s policy agenda is dead in the water. The answer lays in the fact that the warmists overplayed a weak hand. Berating the public for enjoying the comforts of a modern lifestyle and blaming everything bad on the weather inevitably led to concern fatigue. Add the scandal of Climategate, the tarnished reputation of Al Gore and serious questions about what is really going on with global climate and no-one is buying the green’s global warming hoax.

Big Green can spend another $400 million trying to convince people that the sky is falling, but momentum in the great debate is no longer with the radical environmentalists. It’s about time.
The Reference Frame: John Baez became a full-time savior of the Earth
Well, this May was 0.08 °C cooler than May 1998 and every other month of 2010 so far has been cooler than the same month of 1998. But even if this were not the case, how would the observation imply that the "politicians sleep" and "they citizens have to wake them up"? Quite on the contrary, most politicians have jumped on an irrational bandwagon and it is up to the citizens to tear them down from the bandwagon.

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