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January 10, 2007
Anyone still think Al Gore is wrong?
Maybe they should ask these bears:
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian bears at Moscow Zoo have finally dropped off into their hibernation slumber despite months of insomnia caused by a record mild start to winter, zoo officials said on Tuesday.
Russia's arctic winters, which scuttled the occupation plans of both Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler, came to an end this year in European Russia with no snow and temperatures so warm that bears were left pacing around and unable to sleep."The bears have finally fallen asleep and they have not woken up yet," Natalia Istratova, a spokeswoman for Moscow Zoo, said by telephone.
"They usually fall asleep when there is continuous snow cover but despite the fact that there is no snow they are still asleep," she said.
The bears, which usually go into hibernation in November at the latest, finally dropped off at the end of December when a tiny amount of snow fell before swiftly melting, she said.
Russians, who discuss the weather with peculiar intensity, have had to leave their fur hats and ice-skates at home this Christmas, which Moscow's weather centre said was the warmest since records began in 1879.
Posted by Mike at January 10, 2007 02:43 AM
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