Apparently, cold weather is happening so often in Florida due to ‘climate change’ from you refusing to keep your heat at 62, that they are adapting
Look out for falling iguanas as temperatures drop
Watch out for falling iguanas in South Florida this Christmas. Seriously.
This week, a massive storm system is forecast to bring blizzard conditions, wind chills and Arctic cold to the Lower 48. Nearly 70 million people are under winter storm watches or warnings in the Midwest, Great Lakes and Appalachians, while 90 million are under wind chill alerts.
The frigid air is also expected to immobilize coldblooded animals. Iguanas sleeping in trees may lose their grip and drop to the ground. Sea turtles may stun and blow ashore from Texas to New England.
“You change the environment, and the organisms that are going to feel it first and hardest are the ectotherms [coldblooded animals] because their entire fitness is thermally dependent,” said Martha Muñoz, an evolutionary biologist at Yale University.
What Martha means is that you should have moved into a tiny apartment in a Democratic Party run city, only taking the train, bus, and bikes.
But researchers and animal experts say the cold spells don’t seem to incapacitate the iguanas like they used to, suggesting that animals are adapting to the chilly weather. People may still see iguanas dropping during the upcoming cold blast, but not as many as two to three decades ago, said Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill.
“With each year when we get a cold streak, I see less and less of those iguanas falling out of trees and being cold-stunned … and it’s not because there are less and less iguanas,” Magill said. “It’s just indicative that these animals are, in fact, adapting. Less and less of them are succumbing to this type of temperature differential.”
So, the ones that survive the cold snaps are passing those genes on because it’s happening so often. Shouldn’t heat trapping gases make it warmer? Oh, right, heat trapping gases cause massive cold snaps.
Speaking of iguanas in Florida
(Daily Beast) After a brutal hurricane season, people across Florida have grown freshly accustomed to power outages. But at least four times in the last two months, Lake Worth Beach residents have been plunged into darkness thanks to a very different kind of culprit: iguanas.
“Some answer has to be devised to thwart these scaly chompers!” Susannah Amygdalitsis, one of the approximately 1,400 residents affected by an iguana-tripped power outage earlier this month, told The Daily Beast.
She noted it was the second time she dealt with a reptile-related blackout.
They’re getting into structures, including power boxes and substations.
This year alone, residents have been subjected to at least 16 outages triggered by the reptile—which is considered an invasive species in the state of Florida—according to city spokesperson Ben Kerr. That number actually represents a downtick from the recent past: in 2020, the city saw 28 outages caused by lizards. In 2021, Lake Worth saw 20 iguana-triggered blackouts.
Still, interviews with residents suggest the city is littered with the massive green reptiles, which grow up to six feet long with a row of spikes on their neck, back, and tail. And experts say climate change could help explain the surge–with disturbing implications for the fate of infrastructure in Florida and beyond.
Seriously, a piece on iguanas messing with the power supply, and by the 6th paragraph they have to jump to ‘climate change’.
open season and no limits on all invasive species.
oklahoma, texas, and a couple of other states have rattlesnake roundups, maybe florida needs to have iguana roundups.
there are hundreds of fishing tournaments everywhere, why not an iguana tournament??
by the way, iguana are good eating. maybe this is a possible resource for feeding the hungry.
open season and no limits on all invasive species.
oklahoma, texas, and a couple of other states have rattlesnake roundups, maybe florida needs to have iguana roundups.
there are hundreds of fishing tournaments everywhere, why not an iguana tournament??
by the way, iguana are good eating. maybe this is a possible resource for feeding the hungry.
From Instapundit-A Washington Post story from the other day “A new study found that exercise, in almost any amount, reduced the people’s risk of being hospitalized or dying from Covid”. But sitting a foot away from someone at a restaurants was ok..
Remember when they closed the gyms?
*Science*
Oh the science was there. It was just too complicated for the media’s talking heads to explain in two minutes. Plus, our vaunted healthcare professionals, Fauci et al, were busy telling us what to do for our own good.
The CDC/FDA announced in 2020 the efficacy of the vaccines was around 90% for Moderna and Phizer, with Johnson at a distant third around 75%. Since efficacy is in a controlled environment the real world effectiveness would be less. So right up front the best that should have been expected was around 85%-90%. So around 15-10% of those vaccinated should have been expected to remain unprotected.
But that wasn’t emphasized so when some of the vaccinated started to become ill the anti-vaxers and other uneducated, quickly claimed that the vaccines didn’t work.
Plus, the length of protection was not really known. Although vaccines that aren’t permanent, flu, pneumonia, tetanus come to mind. Plus, the necessity for new vaccine variants due to virus mutations, see flu, was well known. None of this was emphasized to the public.
Instead, a “I’m right you’re wrong” atmosphere developed that both sides used to the public’s disadvantage.