100,000 bats fall from Australian skies due to heat wave

[EagleSmack]

And the duration of the heat wave compared to this one?

Intolerable in its absoluteness!

 

[mentalfloss]

https://www.google.ca/#q=polar+vortex+caused+by+global+warming

All those articles identify it as a hypothesis that doesn't explicitly make the causal connection yet.

 

[petros]

the OZ heat wave is caused by cooler than normal oceans.

Australia has started 2013 with a record-breaking heat wave that has lasted more than two weeks across many parts of the country. Temperatures have regularly gone above 48°C (118°F), with the highest recorded maximum of 49.6°C (121.3°F) at Moomba in South Australia. The extreme conditions have been associated with a delayed onset of the Australian monsoon, and slow moving weather systems over the continent.

No rain from cool oceans make for one hot Oz.

 

[mentalfloss]

Cooler oceans are not a forcing, they're a feedback mechanism.

You have to go further back and look at what causes the ocean's temperature to be what it is and that should also play a significant factor in atmospheric temperature.

 

[petros]

When it comes to heat waves inland it,s always cooler oceans as causation.

 

[mentalfloss]

Actually it's jet streams that influence heat waves.

 

[Goober]

100 K bats eh. Anyone know if my ex was one???

 

[Sal]

I feel bad for the dead bats...all the rest of it, meh............ I know, I'll never make a scientist but....poor bats, also poor people as bats eat a sh it load of insects....

 

[petros]

I feel bad for the dead bats...all the rest of it, meh............ I know, I'll never make a scientist but....poor bats, also poor people as bats eat a sh it load of insects....

Or fruit that is your livelihood.