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Cold-stunned turtles wash ashore on N.C. beaches
N&R Fishwrap ^
| December 8, 2010
| AP via Fishwrap
Posted on 12/08/2010 10:21:24 AM PST by Rebelbase
WILMINGTON (AP) The cold weather gripping North Carolina means more stunned sea turtles off the state's coast.
The cold-blooded sea turtles become paralyzed by abnormally low temperatures. The StarNews of Wilmington reports that 30 turtles were reported in trouble Tuesday afternoon near Cape Lookout.
That's on top of the more than 20 turtles that Topsail Beach Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center director Karen Beasley says have already been discovered along the coast.
Loggerhead sea turtles are protected as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. Six loggerhead sea turtles that had been rescued from waters off the Outer Banks were released this summer after nearly six months at the Georgia Aquarium and the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biebers; climate; cooling; globalcooling; stuned; turtle; warming
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Paging Algore, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:21:28 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
It’s December, so it must be a new ice age caused by invert global warming and you must give all moneys to Soros now.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:22:46 AM PST
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
To: Rebelbase
This cold is gonna wipe out the sea trout in the bays/sounds also.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:23:15 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:25:56 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
To: Rebelbase
Cold-stoned turtle biebers are huge and series.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:26:17 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: Rebelbase
Loggerhead sea turtles are protected as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act.
And Mother Nature is killing them. Can't make this stuff up.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:26:31 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Rebelbase
Bush’s fault.
No, really! That is what these LOONS will say!
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:26:59 AM PST
by
Mr. Jazzy
(God bless the United States of America and protect her from the enemies of freedom.)
To: Rebelbase
Paging Algore, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:27:23 AM PST
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: 6SJ7
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:28:57 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:30:42 AM PST
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: Rebelbase
Good name for a rock band.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:31:42 AM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
Send 'em to Cancun for a little tropical vacation. Oh...wait...
"New record low temperatures set in Cancun for three straight days, and more new low temperature records are possible this week." I keep forgetting that weather is not climate.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:35:38 AM PST
by
lonevoice
(Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
To: Rebelbase
The SOB enviro types made the powerplants cool their discharge water in FL. The Manatees would stay close to the plants in the winter to stay warm. Last year it was cold and many manatees froze cause the discharge water was too cool.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:36:19 AM PST
by
Frantzie
(Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
To: Rebelbase
Warm globally, cool locally!
“Guess what?!?! The planet’s got a fever! And the only prescription...is more cowbell!!”
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:41:58 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Rebelbase
Save the turtles, build a coal fired power plant.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:50:53 AM PST
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: Rebelbase
Last year it rained lizards out of the trees during the Florida cold snap. Kept looking for the Geico Gecko.
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posted on
12/08/2010 10:54:11 AM PST
by
Renegade
To: Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
The poor turtles in the Gulf are taking a beating this year (as is all the sea life there). First the oil spill, and now freezing water. Come to think of it, the people are not so happy with the oil spill and the freezing weather either.
To: Rebelbase
Yeah, I’d like to send Albore our $600 heating oil bill too . . . not much global warming in our neck of the woods, that’s for sure.
To: pabianice
Even thought the Turtles are cold, I hope they are Happy Together.
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