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Via the global warming website Grist.

Here’s another reason to combat climate change: Severe weather events can flush out terrifying giant snakes.

This photo — which gives me ALL THE WILLIES. ALL OF THEM — was taken in Louisiana near the Morganza spillway, a flood control structure that was just employed to relieve pressure on the levee system after recent floods. So basically, this snake is relocating due to flooding, like everyone else in the affected area. Man, as if the sharks in Brisbane weren’t bad enough.

I dearly want this photo to be fake — snakes are creepy enough when they’re not a hundred feet long. They WALK with their ABS, people! That’s not right. But many of the commenters at Boing Boing, usually the first to tell by the pixels, are saying they think it’s reality. Monstrous snakes — could there possibly be a better reason to keep the climate under control?

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Building  a new plant at the moment wich makes some kiind of pellets to stop
cows from farting to reduce global warming  
this is not a joke

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Originally Posted by Patrick Sloan:
Building  a new plant at the moment wich makes some kiind of pellets to stop
cows from farting to reduce global warming  
this is not a joke

Pffft!  Hey ... I not only believe it but the USA's spent millions on cow fart research!

Though I think the money would've been better applied if it were used to cure the enormous bubbles of flatulence emanating from Washington D.C.

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the midwest and central plains are wetter, and the west is dryer. it's called a la nina weather pattern. we're also probably going to have a worse than normal hurricane season this year because of it, so get ready gang.


One major factor in whether the Atlantic Ocean will experience an active 2011 hurricane season is fluctuating thousands of miles away in the Pacific.

The La Nina weather phenomenon, which is linked to above average hurricane seasons in the Atlantic, appears to be weakening and it is unclear as the season begins June 1 whether it will exacerbate or have no effect on this year’s storms.

La Nina helped make the 2010 hurricane season the third-most active hurricane season on record, said meteorologist Jeff Masters, who writes a popular weather blog. There were 19 named storms last year and of those, 12 became hurricanes. Meteorologists say it also helped cause this past winter’s barrage of blizzards in the northern United States, heavy summer flooding in Australia and recent tornadoes in the Southern U.S.

La Nina is expected to be gone by June or July, but the federal Climate Prediction Center says that it could continue to affect weather for months.

The National Hurricane Center has predicted that the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will be “above normal,” spawning six to 10 hurricanes of which around half could become major. Another prominent group of forecasters from the University of Colorado has predicted that the 2011 season will have 16 named storms, nine hurricanes and five major hurricanes.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2011/05/20/199413.htm

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There are no native North American snakes that get near that big. That has got to be a released Reticulated Python or an Anaconda.