Cold-stunned turtles wash ashore on N.C. beaches

N&R Fishwrap ^ | December 8, 2010 | AP via Fishwrap

[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.

[Rebelbase]

Paging Algore, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

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.

[Rebelbase]

This cold is gonna wipe out the sea trout in the bays/sounds also.

[reagan_fanatic]

[WOBBLY BOB]

Cold-stoned turtle biebers are huge and series.

[oh8eleven]

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.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Bush’s fault.

No, really! That is what these LOONS will say!

[6SJ7]

Paging Algore, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[Rebelbase]

LOL!

[Cheetahcat]

Hot turtle soup anyone?

[Carl LaFong]

Good name for a rock band.

[lonevoice]

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.

[Frantzie]

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.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Warm globally, cool locally!

“Guess what?!?! The planet’s got a fever! And the only prescription...is more cowbell!!”

[Hacklehead]

Save the turtles, build a coal fired power plant.

[Renegade]

Last year it rained lizards out of the trees during the Florida cold snap. Kept looking for the Geico Gecko.

[pabianice]

Good on them! Turtles rock! (210 million years can't be wrong)

[SaraJohnson]

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.

[Think free or die]

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.

[Rebelbase]

Even thought the Turtles are cold, I hope they are Happy Together.