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Saw the tail end of the story about how the cold is affecting Alligators and pythons in Fl. Ok, the gators will just go deeper, but will this cold kill off a lot of Burms and render both Nelson AND the USGS survey useless at the same time??

We can only hope.

>>Saw the tail end of the story about how the cold is affecting Alligators and pythons in Fl. Ok, the gators will just go deeper, but will this cold kill off a lot of Burms and render both Nelson AND the USGS survey useless at the same time??
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>> We can only hope.

I hope so, but I doubt it. If reality, common sense, logic and reason had anything to do with this, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now.

this is what I sent to my Senators today-feel free to use it as well

Dear Senator Bill Nelson,
In Miami, the temperature dropped to 36 degrees, breaking the old record for the day of 37 degrees set back in 1927. Across South Florida actual temperatures dropped into the upper 20s inland in some locations, including Kendall, with the 'feels like' temperatures in the teens.
In Key West, the temperature at the airport dropped to 42 degrees shattering the old record of 48 degrees set back in 1970. This was also the second coldest temperature ever recorded in Key West going back to 1873
On Sunday Miami tied a record low temperature with a reading of 35 degrees making it the coldest morning we've had since the cold air outbreak of 1989. Sunday afternoon highs were in the 40s which marked only the 4th time that we've had a high temperature that did not exceed 50 degrees since records have been kept in South Florida.
Over the weekend, snow flurries were reported in Kendall and ice pellets in Oakland Park, according to reports sent in to CBS4's Zoom Radar. The reports were from trained National Weather Service spotters.
�@Monday morning will go down in the record books for one of the coldest days in South Florida's history.CBS4's Jeff Berardelli and Lissette Gonzalez contributed to this report
What does all this mean? It means the feral Burmese Python population is all but destroyed. What little that remains alive of the python population will succumb to respiratory ailments. The final nail in the coffin of the feral population will get hit again today when S. Florida temps again hover well below the python's tolerance, securing their anilation from mother nature.
With all this said now we can finally put to rest the cancellation of s373. This bill more than ever is not needed. The weather has done what this bill could never hope to do even if it did all it could, never would s373 be able to have even a fraction of the effect we have unwittingly been privileged to receive. This amplifies the common sense decision that must plainly be evident to everyone. We, more than ever, do not need to damage our economy, destroy an industry, steal the rights to pursue happiness of thousands of Americans, and cause economic hardship and increased unemployment for a accomplished cause that mother nature fixed for us. Thank God!We the people know you as a kind and well intending Senator and expect the obvious.
KILL THE BILL-oppose s373
Your constituent,
Pete Bandre'
Melbourne FL.

The low temps will happen again in the future. It's inevitable. And the USGS survey says they can breed all the way to DC??? I want some of THAT ganja.

I was just wondering how global warming is making it so cold right now? Isn't the theory saying it is getting warmer and this is why pythons will take over the whole east coast?
I still don't buy global warming so much as I think nature fluctuates and when you see it swing one way you can panic and make a big deal out of it but it will swing back the other way sooner or latter too. Then we will make a big deal out of it when it is colder too. The thing is it has done this even before man was here.
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Noah was the first snake collector. ~Eric~

Global warming doesn't have as much to do with actual warmth as it does weather patterns. Ice IS melting at an enormous rate in the arctic and anarctic, and this past decade was the hottest on record. Remember, the Sahara desert used to be a lake, and the anarctic was normal temps in the past. We spents 2 weeks in New Zealand about 6 years ago. The manager of the hotel said we had one of the rooms that could see the glacier. Um....maybe 20 years ago, but it melted back so far that NONE of the rooms could see it.