“Russian winter continues to kill;” that’s Pravda’s headline from Dec 19th ~
Abnormally low winter temperatures in Russia continue to claim more and more lives. Twenty-one people froze to death in only one day; 147 others were hospitalized with frostbite.
The cold weather in central Russia is not going to get any warmer soon. On December 19, the cold has reached St. Petersburg, where temperatures fell below -20 degrees Centigrade. It is 30 degrees below zero in the Ivanovo region, -22C in the Kaluga region, and -25 in Tver.
For the time being, the winter of 2012 has killed 45 people (266 have been hospitalized).
How cold is it? Whoa ~
[Video via RussiaToday and 9NewsWorld]
The video was shot in a Russian town where the outside temperature was -41 degrees Celcius (that’s roughly -41° Farenheit too) according to an app on the man’s phone.
As soon as the water hits the sub-zero winter air it turns into fog leaving a waterfall-like trail as it floats slowly towards the ground.
But despite the freezing temperatures, here’s a real heart-warming story from a Russian zoo ~
Caretakers looking after elephants left out in the cold in Russia were worried that the animals would freeze to death, so they gave them vodka to keep them warm, and apparently that is what saved their lives…
…(Novosibirsk’s zoo director Rostislav) Shilo said the mixture was not concentrated enough for the animals to become intoxicated.
Be careful though if you’re considering self-medicating for hypothermia . While it may help thaw chilly pachyderms, doctors say vodka may not be quite so beneficial for freezing humans ~
Russians are being warned by physicians that alcohol offers no real relief from freezing temperatures. “The idea that alcohol warms people up from within in freezing weather is wrong,” said Russian health official Dr. Gennady Onishchenko, as quoted in Pravda. “Alcohol only can only mislead people … [o]ne needs normal hearty food and warm clothing to be safe.”
But where would Russians be without
their Holiday Spirits? 😀
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Related:
New leak shows predictions of planetary warming have been overstated. Washington Times editorial ~
Reality puts IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) in a bind. Despite the draft chart’s implicit admission that climate models have exaggerated warming, IPCC has not backed down from the tale that carbon dioxide, a natural byproduct of industrial society, is heating the planet. At the same time, the organization realizes it can no longer hide from the widely known temperature data. Billions of dollars are at stake, and politicians expect IPCC to continue drumming up the fears of imminent cataclysm necessary for advancing their classic tax-and-spend liberal agenda. The spending comes in the form of subsidies to trendy “green” companies (usually run by powerful Democratic donors), and cap-and-trade schemes supply the tax revenue.
Calling People Global Warming Skeptics or Climate Change Deniers Merely Reveals the Attacker’s Ignorance
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