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How alligators adapt to frozen swamp water in North Carolina

Mary Kekatos
Daily Mail
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:30 UTC
Alligators essentially allow themselves to be frozen in place with their noses just above the surface, according to a video posted on Facebook by Shallotte River Swamp Park in Ocean Isle Beach

Alligators essentially allow themselves to be frozen in place with their noses just above the surface, according to a video posted on Facebook by Shallotte River Swamp Park in Ocean Isle Beach
A North Carolina swamp park has posted a video how alligators survive in a frozen pond.

The cold-blooded reptiles cannot generate their own body heat, but they can regulate it by changing their environment in a system called brumation. The creatures lower their body temperature and metabolism so they can survive.

Alligators essentially allow themselves to be frozen in place with their noses just above the surface, according to a video posted on Facebook by Shallotte River Swamp Park in Ocean Isle Beach

While it's hard to believe they are able to survive the icy conditions, animal experts say they are very much alive and doing okay.

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13,000 tourists trapped at ski resort in Switzerland after heavy snowfall (3.5 feet in 24 hours) blocks all roads and train line

Afp and Iain Burns
Daily Mail
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:47 UTC
Overnight winds of up to 125 miles per hour also meant there was significant damage to infrastructure on the course, notably at the finish area where tents and the stands were hit.

Overnight winds of up to 125 miles per hour also meant there was significant damage to infrastructure on the course, notably at the finish area where tents and the stands were hit.
Heavy snowfall has trapped around 13,000 tourists at Zermatt, one of Switzerland's most popular ski stations.

The snow has blocked all roads and the train leading to the resort in the southern Swiss canton of Valais, which was also hit by some power outages, head of the train station Janine Imesch said.

There are currently 'around 13,000 tourists at Zermatt,' she said, while the station website warned that 'arrivals and departures are not possible at the moment.'

The main access road has been closed since early yesterday, while the train was halted last night, she said.

Comment: See also this report concerning a similar situation at ski resorts in Italy and France: Heavy snowfall in Alpine regions leaves 30,000 skiers stranded

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Attention

Natural disasters on the rise says scientist, unprecedented cold, wildfires and hurricanes signify 'profound changes'

Sean Martin
Express
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:55 UTC
global natural disasters
A SPIKE in devastating natural disasters is on the way as the planet has exceeded a "tipping point" for climate change, a leading scientist has claimed.

The east coast of the US continues to be ravaged by a freezing cold snap while the other side of the country has been hit by wildfires.

These are a signs of the times according to one professor, who says that the situation will only worsen in the next few years.
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Cloud Lightning

Nearly 5,000 lightning strikes in 3 hours leaves thousands without power in Sydney, Australia


The Big Wobble
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:57 UTC
Nearly 5,000 lightning strikes in 3 hours left thousands without power in Sydney
© Nick Moir
Fast-moving storms swept across Sydney this morning.
After temperatures approaching 50 deg C, 122 deg F melted roads and killed thousands of flying fox bats the weather in Sydney has gone from one extreme to the other.

A heavy thunderstorm hit Sydney with more than 4600 lightning strikes between 3am and 6am this morning, leaving thousands without power after days of extreme heat.

The western and northwestern suburbs bore the brunt of the storm, with Blacktown particularly hard hit with tiles off roofs and trees brought down.
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Snowflake Cold

Heavy snowfall wreaks havoc in China: 1.5 million people affected, 21 killed and 700 homes destroyed


Firstpost
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:13 UTC
China snowfall 2018
© Xinhua
A snow grader clears a path on a dangerous road in Nanzhang county, Hubei province.
Heavy snowfall in China continued to wreak havoc on Monday, damaging houses, agriculture and power facilities, with authorities saying 21 people have been killed and millions hit in the last one week.

The provinces that have been badly hit by the weather are Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Chongqing Municipality, the China National Commission for Disaster Reduction said.

More than 3,700 people have been relocated and 14,000 are in need of emergency assistance, said the commission, noting that over 700 houses had collapsed and nearly 2,800 were damaged, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The weather has affected more than 2,33,100 hectares of farmland, with more than 8,100 hectares destroyed, causing direct economic losses of 5.55 billion yuan ($854 million), it said.

Nineteen expressways in northeast Liaoning province have been closed or controlled since the snow started last night, according to local transport authorities.

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Snowflake Cold

In North America, it's so cold that windows break


Sputnik
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 22:32 UTC
The unprecedented cold snap that struck North America has created surprises for the people. Even those who are accustomed to the cold recognize that the windows hadn't broken yet because of the weather...
cold cracked glass
North Americans share photos of their broken windows on the Net... because of the cold!

North America is facing an extreme cold snap.
cold cracked glass
People prepared for the worst after weather forecasters warned them about the region's sharp drop in air pressure and record low temperatures.
cold cracked glass
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Snowman

Settled science: Snowfalls will soon become a thing of the past (say climate scientists)

Charles Onians
The Independent
Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:55 UTC

Comment: They got this so wrong, they were not even wrong.


snow england
© Ben Cawthra/LNP
This car in Buckinghamshire, England, had to be rescued from snow on December 10, 2017. Climate scientists said this was not supposed to happen.
Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.

Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters - which scientists are attributing to global climate change - produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.

The first two months of 2000 were virtually free of significant snowfall in much of lowland Britain, and December brought only moderate snowfall in the South-east. It is the continuation of a trend that has been increasingly visible in the past 15 years: in the south of England, for instance, from 1970 to 1995 snow and sleet fell for an average of 3.7 days, while from 1988 to 1995 the average was 0.7 days. London's last substantial snowfall was in February 1991.

Comment: Just ridiculous. But that's what typically passes for 'science' these days; reading tea-leaves (and guessing wrong).

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Igloo

Russian scientist: 'The new Little Ice Age has started'

Marc Morano
Climate Depot
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:01 UTC
Snow banks on plowed road
© repealtheact.com
Featured in new skeptical global warming book: New Book: Evidence-Based Climate Science: 'Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming'

Chapter 17:

Astrophysicist Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov, Head of Space Research Laboratory at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia in new book:
Since 1990, the Sun has been in the declining phase of the quasi-bicentennial variation in total solar irradiance (TSI). The decrease in the portion of TSI absorbed by the Earth since 1990 has remained uncompensated by the Earth's long-wave radiation into space at the previous high level because of the thermal inertia of the world's oceans. As a result, the Earth has, and will continue to have, a negative average annual energy balance and a long-term adverse thermal condition.

The quasi-centennial epoch of the new Little Ice Age has started at the end 2015 after the maximum phase of solar cycle 24. The start of a solar grand minimum is anticipated in solar cycle 27 ± 1 in 2043 ± 11 and the beginning of phase of deep cooling in the new Little Ice Age in 2060 ± 11.

The gradual weakening of the Gulf Stream leads to stronger cooling in the zone of its action in western Europe and the eastern parts of the United States and Canada. Quasi-bicentennial cyclic variations of TSI together with successive very important influences of the causal feedback effects are the main fundamental causes of corresponding alternations in climate variation from warming to the Little Ice Age.

Comment: See also:

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Boat

NY passenger says "this was the worst moment of my life", Norwegian cruise ship sailed through thick of monster winter storm


CBS
Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:10 UTC
Norwegian cruise ship
Thursday's winter storm was tough to take around the Tri-State Area, but imagine being in the thick of it on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

For 21 members of the Ross family, of Stony Brook, it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime - cruising to the Bahamas for their patriarch's 80th birthday. Instead, they returned Friday after what they called a nightmare onboard the Norwegian Breakaway.

"I thought I'd never be in a situation where I would say that's the scariest moment of my life. This was the worst moment of my life," said Karoline Ross, speaking exclusively with CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff.

She and Del Ross spoke with CBS2 while they were en route to New York, after they said their 4,000 passenger cruise ship sailed right into the storm Tuesday night for two harrowing days in ocean swells up to 30 feet. The seasoned boaters called it traumatic.

Comment: See also: 'Bomb cyclone' leaves frozen wake of destruction and kills 22 in eastern US

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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Snowing again in Sahara Desert - Tornado in SW France - Magnetosphere weakening (VIDEO)


Adapt 2030
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:54 UTC
Snow in the Sahara
© Watts up with That
January 2018: Snowfall over the Sahara Desert - second winter in a row!
The media is scrambling to explain the all time record cold that descended on the US and Canada over the holiday break through the beginning of the New Year. I heard repeatedly that N. America was the only cold place on the planet, well that's not entirely true, Asia shivered through record cold with crop losses as far south as Myanmar. The explanations never include grand solar minimum forces, weakening magnetosphere or 400 year repeating cycles. Now there are tornadoes in France in January, snow storms over the Sahara Desert again. CO2 in not to blame, its the Sun.

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