or was it tricked into emerging by a pleasantly warm day after a week of wet, icy mid-July weather? Normally you don’t see leopard tortoises during winter, but this one could be a sign of the times. After all, haywire global weather patterns seem to suggest that the climate alarmists have been right all along and that farmers can expect anything from now on, both weather-wise and in terms of animal behaviour and diseases.
According to a report in the New York Times, not only was May the warmest on record for the northern hemisphere, it was also the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th century average. June saw some 3 200 heat records broken in the US. So far, South African meteorologists predict no similar, dramatic events for the foreseeable future, but this tortoise might know something they do not.
