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Cold snap leaves Florida streets littered with frozen iguanas
Reptiles drop from trees as mercury hits -4C in Orlando – the lowest recorded in February in more than a century

Obvious, innit?

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Addolff
Addolff
5 days ago

Now if only they had introduced a carbon tax as that nice Mr Stern said, they’d have been fine…………

But what’s this? Florida Senate to vote on Bill H1217 2026 to ban the introduction of net zero policies and Carbon taxes.
Seems like some of them think Stern is a load of bullshit too.

Bongo
Bongo
4 days ago
Reply to  Addolff

Does Stern really say that it’ll be fine in February if a CO2 tax is introduced and there are no other interventions, quotas, bans, targets and subsidies.
I recall it’s about the “no other interventions, quotas, bans, targets and subsidies” and putting the costs science claims into prices is the most efficient way of balancing this schit.

Addolff
Addolff
4 days ago
Reply to  Bongo

No he doesn’t Bongo I was being facetious, but as Tim has done, Stern is accepting the unproven theory that mans’ use of fossil fuels is a problem and the most efficient way to deal with it is with taxes.

Grist
Grist
5 days ago

Tim, how many times has it been very clearly explained to us, that this is just the weather and we’re talking about climate change. Completely different phenomena. Apparrently…

Emil
Emil
5 days ago
Reply to  Grist

They are only different when it’s colder than normal, when it’s warmer (or wetter, drier, etc) then they are the same phenomena

Grist
Grist
5 days ago
Reply to  Emil

I’ve got one of my granddaughters working on a sarcasm emoji, mate, I just can’t convey it in writing…

Michael van der Riet
Michael van der Riet
4 days ago
Reply to  Grist

(_!_)

Gamecock
Gamecock
5 days ago
Reply to  Grist

Yes. It seems there is no weather component to climate change. It occurs independent of weather.

Mohave Greenie
Mohave Greenie
5 days ago
Reply to  Gamecock

It’s important to maintain the distinction, weather can only be predicted a few days out. Climate Catastrophe™ is predictable to within 0.1 degrees a century away. Get with the program people!

Michael van der Riet
Michael van der Riet
3 days ago
Reply to  Gamecock

LANGUAGE OF THE SEASONS

Living among orchards, we are ruled
By the four seasons necessarily:
This from unseasonable frosts we learn
Or from usurping suns and haggard flowers
Legitimist our disapproval.

Weather we knew, not seasons, in the city
While, seasonless, orange and orchid shone.
Knew it by heavy overcoat or light.
Framed love in later terminologies
Than here, where we report how weight of snow
Or weight of fruit, tears branches from the tree.

Robert Graves

JuliaM
5 days ago

Given they are an invasive species, this is an improvement, as collecting and euthanising them just got easier. I believe the new guy in New York has had similar success with down and outs.

Ottokring
Ottokring
5 days ago
Reply to  JuliaM

Are the iguanas from Cuba ?

I bet they run cartels in big juicy flies.

“First you getta da insects, then you get the nice branch in tree…”

Grist
Grist
5 days ago
Reply to  JuliaM

Thanks, Julia, for helping me beat the online censor algorithms that seem to be everywhere now. First they were illegals, then undocumented, then asylum seekers and now – iguanas!!!

Bucko
Bucko
5 days ago

Well that’s tea sorted

Philip Scott Thomas
Philip Scott Thomas
5 days ago

I’ve heard iguanas make for some good eating. That just makes them easier to catch.

Grikath
Grikath
4 days ago

There’s a solid reason they’re called “chicken of the trees” in the Caribbean…
Also Florida Bush BBQ material, etc..

Chris Miller
Chris Miller
4 days ago

“You can live on it, but it tastes like shit.”

Mick Dundee on goannas (not quite the same animal, but close!)

Grikath
Grikath
4 days ago
Reply to  Chris Miller

“Not quite” is an understatement…

Goannas are monitor lizards… Y’know.. the predatory, carrion-loving wastebins of Nature.
Like rats, they’re *edible* if prepared with enough care, but definitely not your first choice.

Iguanas are *mostly* vegetarian, a completely different family of lizards, and are Good Eatin’ ..
And very much not native to Australia…

The Original Jim
The Original Jim
5 days ago

Get with the program, its climate change now, has been ever since about 2010 when the extremely cold weather across Europe made ‘global warming’ a mockery. Cue a quick PR change to ‘climate change’, a far more flexible concept. Now anything other than entirely temperate weather is ‘proof’ they are right. In fact it can never be disproved. I could argue social media is causing climate change and there’s no way of proving it isn’t.

When are you going to accept Tim that you’ve been had?

andyf
andyf
5 days ago

Richard Feynman gave a great talk on the scientific method back in 1964.

https://youtu.be/EYPapE-3FRw?si=KuUbo4hSEwImLT9t

What we learn in the first 60 seconds of his talk illustrates how the scientific method was not applied to the science of “Global Warming”. By six and a half minutes the lack of any means to disprove teaches us that “Climate Change” obviously fails to follow the scientific method too.

bloke in spain
bloke in spain
5 days ago

Any one else remember an identical story from about 20 years back?
And if they’re an invasive species, it’d explain why they aren’t indigenous. There was another, similar one about frozen alligators, more recently. So do the alligators revive more rapidly & start tucking into the iguanas?

Boganboy
Boganboy
4 days ago
Reply to  bloke in spain

Pity we don’t have a nice cold winter here in Oz to freeze the damn crocodiles which we’re told are expanding south towards me in Brisbane.

But of course the real cause of the trouble is that the crocs are now deemed to be beautiful gifts of nature that should be strongly protected. Indeed even the pollies who think something should be done just suggest culling. Instead of simply declaring them vermin, to be shot on sight as they were in the good old days.

PiP Community Leader
PiP Community Leader
5 days ago

No doubt frozen iguanas make perfectly good fuel (if there are wood-burners in Florida).

Not exactly fossil fuels – though there are some people who doubt that all fossil fuels really are fossil fuels anyway.

Gamecock
Gamecock
5 days ago

Thousands of iguanas have been frozen solid

Solid? I don’t think so. Do they shatter when they hit the sidewalk?

JuliaM
4 days ago
Reply to  Gamecock

No, most aren’t dead and will revive if warmed up.

BraveFart
BraveFart
5 days ago

Sort of like boiling a frog slowly

Last edited 5 days ago by BraveFart
TD
TD
4 days ago

The frozen iguanas falling out of trees story happens every year, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

bloke in spain
bloke in spain
4 days ago
Reply to  TD

Interesting. Now posit a cause & effect. Romance requires frozen iguanas? Or is the thawing sets it off?

Grikath
Grikath
4 days ago
Reply to  bloke in spain

High-protein free food supplement… Just about right for males to get frisky, and for the females who’ve already caught to get some extra in for the first trimester…

That *very distinct* mid-September to early November wave with a hella lot of B’days….

TD
TD
4 days ago
Reply to  bloke in spain

I think it’s a form of birth control as it’s a bit off-putting as regards romance..

Bloke in North Dorset
Bloke in North Dorset
4 days ago

It doesn’t matter how many times they get caught out climate scientists still believe those damned models and the gullible MSM and politicians gobble it up each for their own purposes. Still, it’s nice to see at least some MSM showing a bit of scepticism.

More than two decades ago, renowned climate scientist Mojib Latif of Germany’s Max Planck Instiute for Meterology, based in Hamburg, warned the climate-ambulance chasing Der Spiegel that, due to global warming, Germany would likely no longer experience harsh winters with heavy frost and snow as it had in previous decades.

In light of the current severe winter weather in Germany, Latif’s statements are facing renewed scrutiny. An article appearing in the Berliner Zeitung here notes that Latif’s prophecy has “aged poorly” and he appears to want to have nothing to do with them.

Hiding from the media

According to the Berliner Zeitung, the former Max Planck Institute scientist has recently stopped responding to media inquiries regarding his past claims. Critics argue that such drastic predictions damage the credibility of climate science, while others point out that extreme weather events—including intense cold snaps—can still occur within the broader context of climate change.

https://notrickszone.com/2026/02/03/climate-scientist-who-predicted-end-of-heavy-frost-and-snow-now-refuses-media-inquiries/

Norman
Norman
4 days ago

“Oi, King Chuck, why ain’t we all been boiled already?”

Mr Womby
Mr Womby
4 days ago
Reply to  Norman

It’s like Alice’s “jam tomorrow”, always coming soon but never arriving.

Michael van der Riet
Michael van der Riet
3 days ago
Reply to  Norman

2026 could be England’s year. Its sovereign even has ears to suit.

Addolff
Addolff
4 days ago

I won’t bore everyone by posting the Dr. David Viner “snow will be a thing of the past” meme from 2000.

And Marillion sang “snowflakes in a newborn fist, sledging on a hill. Are these things we’ll never see in England” on ‘Seasons End’ in 1989……..

Last edited 4 days ago by Addolff
Gamecock
Gamecock
4 days ago

Pls, people, the Telegraph is full of shit. They aren’t ‘frozen.’ Their metabolism has slowed to where they go into a stupor.

Reason
Reason
4 days ago
Reply to  Gamecock

Telegraph writers?

Gamecock
Gamecock
3 days ago
Reply to  Reason

The rot goes to the top.

Michael van der Riet
Michael van der Riet
3 days ago

It’s that cold, a Florida politician has been seen with his hands in his own pockets.

Swannypol
Swannypol
3 days ago

This is the start of the mini ice age they promised us in c 1980.
Couple of years like this THEN we get the catastrophic heating prmised c2000
Then it all goes random into the non specific climate chage from 2020 on.
Obvs innit!

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