Save The Manatees, Put The Heating On

December 11, 2010 at 4:00 pm

As collectivists and hand-wringers brave the 100-year record cold temperatures in Cancun to push the shopworn global warming hoax there is news from the Orlando Sentinel via Doug Powers:

Cold kills record number of manatees in 2010

Florida’s record number of manatee deaths in 2010 — 699 — were largely blamed on the severe cold last winter. And that count could rise with more cold temperatures expected next week…

…Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials said Friday that 2010 saw an unprecedented die-off for the endangered mammals…

…Last winter’s freezing temperatures gave many manatees an acute cold shock, like severe hypothermia, that killed them faster than in previous winters [and] the cold weather spread as far south as the Everglades and Florida Keys, areas where manatees usually don’t see many cold-related deaths.

So turn up the heating. By a 4×4 and leave all the lights on.

There’s a manatee depending on you.