Bats drop dead from trees: Australia sizzles under record heat

[Kosh]

Yet, you scoff at the notion of wind turbines killing bats and endangered birds by the score.

As the article demonstrates, AGW/CC will kill far, far more.

And the AGW church propaganda is in full swing...

 

[Kosh]

We are in the middle of a heatwave right now. Its close to 111 F outside and this will continue for the next three days.

And? Are you an AGW believer because of it?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Its global...A avg of all the worlds temperature location data sets over decades.

 

[RollingThunder]

We are in the middle of a heatwave right now. Its close to 111 F outside and this will continue for the next three days.

And? Are you an AGW believer because of it?

So tell us, Klod, are you a global cooling "believer" because it's been really cold where you are this winter?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Its global...A avg of all the worlds temperature location data sets over decades.

How many data points used to average world temps?

 

[RollingThunder]

Its global...A avg of all the worlds temperature location data sets over decades.

How many data points used to average world temps?

Almost certainly more than the number of brain cells in your little pin-head, ToadtheParrot.

 

[flacaltenn]

I'll see your bats and raise you 400 humans..


Europe cold: Death toll from Europe?s cold snap hits 400 as explosive experts called in to break up Serbian ice | National Post

Around 400 people have now died from the cold weather in Europe since the cold snap began 11 days ago.

While there was some respite for people in Ukraine — where more than 130 deaths have been recorded — the mercury plunged overnight to minus 39.4 degrees Celsius in the Kvilda region of the Czech Republic.

More bodies were found either on the streets, in their cars or in their homes in Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Hungary and across the Balkans.

yeah, I know that was from 2012.. But for this juvenile game youre playing, it legal money..

Next hand.. ill deal.

Professor Sian Griffiths, president of the Faculty of Public Health, which sets and maintains professional standards in public health, said: "A high proportion of preventable illness and deaths in the UK is caused by people living in damp and cold housing.

"If we see much more of the cold weather of recent days, it is likely that as many as 50,000 people will die unnecessarily over this winter. This is a tragedy in terms of human life and also creates a huge - and preventable - strain on the NHS.

"The UK remains one of the worst countries in the world at coping with unseasonable low temperatures. Although the Government has shown commitment to tacking the problem, it has not given sufficient priority to such an important public health issue and its approach remains far too uncoordinated.

"All of us must be vigilant at the moment to look out for family, friends and neighbours who may be suffering. Often fatal illnesses develop two or three days after a cold snap has finished."

It is estimated that there are 8,000 extra deaths for every one degree Celsius the temperature is below the winter average.



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Didya get that? 1degree of GW can SAVE up to 8000 people per year in GB ALONE..

You like this game Princess? More your speed than the hard science stuff?
You guys are boring the shit out of me....

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The only way to stop Global Warming is if the entire AGW Cult marches into the sea

 

[westwall]

Pretty much every winter the denier cult dingbats idiotically scream that "it's so cold where I am therefore global warming must be a hoax", stupidly ignoring that "global" actually means global. Nitwit deniers on this forum have started threads like "where's my global warming?". Get a clue, denier cult fools, more places around the world are unusually hot than unusually cold. For example, as mentioned in this very recent article, Australia and Brazil are both cooking at a 120 degrees or more. I'm not sure how many of these denier cultists have ever experienced temperatures rising to 120 or 122 degrees for days in a row but, the way the world is warming, they soon will.

Bats drop dead from trees: Australia sizzles under record heat
The heat wave in Australia has taken a toll on wildlife, with bats dropping from trees and kangaroos collapsing
The Seattle Times
By ROD McGUIRK - The Associated Press
January 9, 2014
(excerpts)
CANBERRA, Australia — Bats are dropping from trees, kangaroos are collapsing in the Outback and gardens are turning brown. While much of North America freezes under record low temperatures, the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing the opposite extreme as heat records are being set in Australia after the hottest year ever. Weather forecasters in Australia said some parts of the sparsely populated Pilbara region along the rugged northwest coast were approaching 122 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday. Since Dec. 27, records have been set at 34 locations across Australia — some by large margins — where temperature data has been collected for at least 40 years mostly in Queensland and New South Wales states. Brazil is also sizzling, with the heat index reaching 120 Fahrenheit.

The heat wave in Australia has taken a toll on wildlife. In Winton, famous for being one of the hottest spots in Queensland and where Australia’s unofficial anthem, “Waltzing Matilda,” was penned, a large number of parrots, kangaroos and emus have recently been found dead, said Tom Upton, chief executive of Winton Shire Council. At least 50,000 bats had been killed by the heat in the state’s southeast, said Louise Saunders, president of the Queensland animal-welfare group Bat Conservation and Rescue. Heat-stressed bats — including the black flying foxes, little red flying foxes and the endangered gray-headed flying foxes — cling to trees and urinate on themselves in a bid to reduce their body temperatures, she said. “As they succumb, they just fall in heaps at the base of trees,” Saunders said. “You can have 250 or more ... all dying at the base of trees.”

And four years ago MILLIONS of animals were killed in Mongolia alone. 50,000 bats vs. MILLIONS. Yeah, that's a real accurate comparison allright.
"Imagine trying to survive in temperatures below minus 50 degrees F (minus 47 degrees C) for more than a month.
It happened in Mongolia this winter–weather so cold that livestock and other animals were dying painfully at a rate of a quarter of a million deaths every week, resulting in the loss of millions of animals over the season.
Imagine the impact such a disaster has on humans–economically, environmentally and health-wise."
Mongolian dzud kills millions of domestic animals ? News Watch
Or how about the 250,000 ALPACAS! who were killed by extreme cold last year?
"Peru’s government has declared a state of emergency in parts of the southern Andean region of Puno that have been hit with the coldest temperatures in a decade, daily El Comercio reported.
President Ollanta Humala, visiting the area this week, announced the emergency for seven provinces in Puno – Carabaya, Sandia, Lampa, San Antonio de Putina, Melgar, Puno and El Collao.
Hundreds of families have been affected and more than 250,000 alpacas have died due to freezing temperatures and snow storms that have hit the southern highlands.
Vehicles on the highway between Puno and Arequipa were also affected. Passengers on interprovincial buses were forced to wait some eight to 10 hours on the icy highways at temperatures of minus 15 degrees Celsius."
Peru Declares State of Emergency in Puno as Temperatures Drop
Millions-of-animals-need-human-help-during-freeze_64863038

Weather still happens, although it's getting wilder and more extreme now, and some places get hot and some places get cold, but the point is, you poor old senile retard, that more places are getting hotter now than are getting colder. Moreover the hot places are tending to get even hotter and there are fewer extreme cold snaps than there used to be.

Yeah, well my weather killed millions of animals, while your wimpy little climate change managed to kill 50,000 in a freaking desert! And funny how you ignore the fact that there hasn't been a year since 2008 or so when there wasn't a severe cold snap that has broken buildings in some places of the world, while the heat waves are getting less frequent

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[RollingThunder]

Professor Sian Griffiths, president of the Faculty of Public Health, which sets and maintains professional standards in public health, said: "A high proportion of preventable illness and deaths in the UK is caused by people living in damp and cold housing.

"If we see much more of the cold weather of recent days, it is likely that as many as 50,000 people will die unnecessarily over this winter. This is a tragedy in terms of human life and also creates a huge - and preventable - strain on the NHS.

"The UK remains one of the worst countries in the world at coping with unseasonable low temperatures. Although the Government has shown commitment to tacking the problem, it has not given sufficient priority to such an important public health issue and its approach remains far too uncoordinated.

"All of us must be vigilant at the moment to look out for family, friends and neighbours who may be suffering. Often fatal illnesses develop two or three days after a cold snap has finished."

It is estimated that there are 8,000 extra deaths for every one degree Celsius the temperature is below the winter average.

Didya get that? 1degree of GW can SAVE up to 8000 people per year in GB ALONE..

Not exactly, fecalhead. You're just too retarded to understand that one degree of global warming is not the same as a one degree higher average winter temperature in Great Britain. It doesn't work that way. The global death toll from two degrees of global warming is going to be orders of magnitude greater than 8000 people per year, BTW, but of course, I know you're in denial about that too.

And of course, there is the issue that there are a number of countries that get much colder than Great Britain in the winter without any death toll. According to the Doctor being quoted in the article you quoted, the Brits are just kind of incompetent at dealing with really cold weather.
"The UK remains one of the worst countries in the world at coping with unseasonable low temperatures."

 

[Gracie]

Weather still happens, although it's getting wilder and more extreme now, and some places get hot and some places get cold, but the point is, that more places are getting hotter now than are getting colder. Moreover the hot places are tending to get even hotter and there are fewer extreme cold snaps than there used to be.

I agree with this. But you would get your point across better without resorting to name calling those who think this is "normal" weather. It's not.

 

[Tank]

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[freedombecki]

Its global...A avg of all the worlds temperature location data sets over decades.

How many data points used to average world temps?

Almost certainly more than the number of brain cells in your little pin-head, ToadtheParrot.

Your red petticoat is showing with zero proofs again, Ms. Noisy Maroon.

 

[freedombecki]

The only way to stop Global Warming is if the entire AGW Cult marches into the sea

Gee, Frank, all that hot air would raise the temp of the oceans and it'd just be a fish frye.

/done with puns

 

[freedombecki]

Strolling Blunder.... making an ass off himself since March 2010.

Yeppers, Mr. H. The truth squirts.

 

[syrenn]

Pretty much every winter the denier cult dingbats idiotically scream that "it's so cold where I am therefore global warming must be a hoax", stupidly ignoring that "global" actually means global. Nitwit deniers on this forum have started threads like "where's my global warming?". Get a clue, denier cult fools, more places around the world are unusually hot than unusually cold. For example, as mentioned in this very recent article, Australia and Brazil are both cooking at a 120 degrees or more. I'm not sure how many of these denier cultists have ever experienced temperatures rising to 120 or 122 degrees for days in a row but, the way the world is warming, they soon will.

Bats drop dead from trees: Australia sizzles under record heat
The heat wave in Australia has taken a toll on wildlife, with bats dropping from trees and kangaroos collapsing
The Seattle Times
By ROD McGUIRK - The Associated Press
January 9, 2014
(excerpts)
CANBERRA, Australia — Bats are dropping from trees, kangaroos are collapsing in the Outback and gardens are turning brown. While much of North America freezes under record low temperatures, the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing the opposite extreme as heat records are being set in Australia after the hottest year ever. Weather forecasters in Australia said some parts of the sparsely populated Pilbara region along the rugged northwest coast were approaching 122 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday. Since Dec. 27, records have been set at 34 locations across Australia — some by large margins — where temperature data has been collected for at least 40 years mostly in Queensland and New South Wales states. Brazil is also sizzling, with the heat index reaching 120 Fahrenheit.

The heat wave in Australia has taken a toll on wildlife. In Winton, famous for being one of the hottest spots in Queensland and where Australia’s unofficial anthem, “Waltzing Matilda,” was penned, a large number of parrots, kangaroos and emus have recently been found dead, said Tom Upton, chief executive of Winton Shire Council. At least 50,000 bats had been killed by the heat in the state’s southeast, said Louise Saunders, president of the Queensland animal-welfare group Bat Conservation and Rescue. Heat-stressed bats — including the black flying foxes, little red flying foxes and the endangered gray-headed flying foxes — cling to trees and urinate on themselves in a bid to reduce their body temperatures, she said. “As they succumb, they just fall in heaps at the base of trees,” Saunders said. “You can have 250 or more ... all dying at the base of trees.”

you do realize that when it is winter here....it is summer there.

 

[Samson]

Heat-stressed bats — including the black flying foxes, little red flying foxes and the endangered gray-headed flying foxes — cling to trees and urinate on themselves in a bid to reduce their body temperatures, she said. “As they succumb, they just fall in heaps at the base of trees,” Saunders said. “You can have 250 or more ... all dying at the base of trees.”

Perhaps Dems could learn from Bats during the next Budget Showdown in the US Congress.

 

[syrenn]

and just something to think about.... you cant kill the bats in AU. They are a pest. A good deal of folks there will be very happy the bats are dropping dead.

 

[RollingThunder]

Pretty much every winter the denier cult dingbats idiotically scream that "it's so cold where I am therefore global warming must be a hoax", stupidly ignoring that "global" actually means global. Nitwit deniers on this forum have started threads like "where's my global warming?". Get a clue, denier cult fools, more places around the world are unusually hot than unusually cold. For example, as mentioned in this very recent article, Australia and Brazil are both cooking at a 120 degrees or more. I'm not sure how many of these denier cultists have ever experienced temperatures rising to 120 or 122 degrees for days in a row but, the way the world is warming, they soon will.

Bats drop dead from trees: Australia sizzles under record heat
The heat wave in Australia has taken a toll on wildlife, with bats dropping from trees and kangaroos collapsing
The Seattle Times
By ROD McGUIRK - The Associated Press
January 9, 2014
(excerpts)
CANBERRA, Australia — Bats are dropping from trees, kangaroos are collapsing in the Outback and gardens are turning brown. While much of North America freezes under record low temperatures, the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing the opposite extreme as heat records are being set in Australia after the hottest year ever. Weather forecasters in Australia said some parts of the sparsely populated Pilbara region along the rugged northwest coast were approaching 122 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday. Since Dec. 27, records have been set at 34 locations across Australia — some by large margins — where temperature data has been collected for at least 40 years mostly in Queensland and New South Wales states. Brazil is also sizzling, with the heat index reaching 120 Fahrenheit.

The heat wave in Australia has taken a toll on wildlife. In Winton, famous for being one of the hottest spots in Queensland and where Australia’s unofficial anthem, “Waltzing Matilda,” was penned, a large number of parrots, kangaroos and emus have recently been found dead, said Tom Upton, chief executive of Winton Shire Council. At least 50,000 bats had been killed by the heat in the state’s southeast, said Louise Saunders, president of the Queensland animal-welfare group Bat Conservation and Rescue. Heat-stressed bats — including the black flying foxes, little red flying foxes and the endangered gray-headed flying foxes — cling to trees and urinate on themselves in a bid to reduce their body temperatures, she said. “As they succumb, they just fall in heaps at the base of trees,” Saunders said. “You can have 250 or more ... all dying at the base of trees.”

you do realize that when it is winter here....it is summer there.

You do realize (it was mentioned in the article above) that 2013 was the hottest year on record in Australia. The current heat wave there is a continuation of that and isn't just a seasonal shift. BTW, have you ever tried to function when the temperature is 120 or 122 degrees?

 

[Gracie]

I thought bats were needed due to eating bugs that kill crops?