In an interview in 2000, Mikhail Gorbachev, in response to the comment " In the 1980s, you warned about the unprecedented dangers of nuclear weapons and took very daring steps to reverse the arms race ," said " Models made by Russian and American scientists showed that a nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter that would be extremely destructive to all life on Earth ; the knowledge of that was a great stimulus to us, to people of honor and morality, to act in that situation.

The modern Olympics have been held during the summer months every four years since 1896 ( though the 2000 Sydney olympics happened when it was technically winter there ).

Since 2000, a small amateur experimental planting has been underway in the Lake Champlain valley of Vermont at the Vermont Experimental Cold-Hardy Cactus Garden where winter temperatures can reach − 37 ° C with variable snowcover.

The delays were due both to an embargo on road works for the total solar eclipse of 11 August 1999 which saw tourists flock to Cornwall, one of the few areas of the UK in the path of totality, and also due to extremely bad weather during the winter of 1999 / 2000.

Current mean annual movement according to a study made in 2000 is " up to 0. 25 m ; this increases greatly when winter rainfalls exceed thresholds of both 210 mm / month and 750 mm in the preceding six months.

#* With Duff McKagan on bass ; performed live at Jupiter Studios, Seattle WA, winter 2000.

During the initial campaign, Russian military and pro-Russian Chechen paramilitary forces faced Chechen separatists in open combat, and seized the Chechen capital Grozny after a winter siege that lasted from late 1999 to the following February 2000.

An account of his life by Alan Dorling is in the Nottinghamshire Historian journal, spring / summer 2000, pages 9 – 15 and further details in the autumn / winter edition of 2003, pages 8 – 12.

Their main food is fruit, which they eat from early summer ( strawberries, mulberries, and serviceberries ) through late summer and fall ( raspberries, blackberries, cherries, and honeysuckle berries ) into late fall and winter ( juniper berries, grapes, crabapples, mountain ash fruits, rose hips, cotoneaster fruits, dogwood berries, and mistletoe berries ) ( MacKinnon and Phillipps 2000, Witmer and Avery 2003 ).

During winter, birds typically feed alone and rarely aggregate into flocks, but on migration, concentrations of over 2000 individuals may occur at favoured staging sites.

Canadian rules were further tightened in British Columbia in 2000 after a producer dealt with the mild winter of 1999 by moving grapes up to the mountains to seek freezing temperatures.

Vagrant Lesser Scaup have also been recorded on the Hawaiian Islands Japan, possibly China, and – for the first time on 18 January 2000 – in the Marianas, as well as in Ecuador, Surinam, Trinidad and Venezuela ( in winter ), and Greenland ( in summer ).

During offseasons, she interned with the Sting's front office, worked with US Sport Management, Inc., played a second winter season in Italy in 1999 – 2000, and served as an assistant women's basketball coach at UNC for several seasons.

In the year 2000, Misawa hosted the winter events for the 55th annual National Sports Festival of Japan.

The 2000 – 2002 Lincoln LS V8 ( the five-speed automatic without manumatic capabilities, as opposed to the optional sport package w / manu-matic 5-speed ) started in 2nd gear during most starts both in winter and other seasons by selecting the " D5 " transmission selection notch in the shiftgate ( for fuel savings ), whereas " D4 " would always start in 1st gear.

The Weihenstephan campus was restructured for the start of the winter semester 2000 / 01 and realigned along scientific lines: the former Faculties of Agriculture and Horticulture, Brewing, Food Technology and Dairy Science, as well as the Forestry Faculty that previously belonged to the Ludwig Maximilian University, were collectively accommodated in the newly established Weihenstephan Science Centre for Life & Food Sciences, Land Use and Environment ( WZW ).

The subalpine scrub with an average annual rainfall 2000 – 6000 mm is above the tree line to 1800 – 2000 m, at elevations where frosts occur regularly in winter, dominated by shrubs in the plant families of Ericaceae ( Erica spp.

North American birds, along with some from Greenland and Europe, winter along the 2000 km of ice edge stretching between 50 ° and 64 ° N from the Labrador Sea to Davis Strait that is bordered by Labrador and southwestern Greenland.

For instance, the 101st count, in the winter of 2000 – 2001, involved 52, 471 people in 1, 823 places in 17 countries ( but mostly in the U. S. and Canada ).

Though initially planned for release the following winter, the game, now known under its finalized title of Pokémon Trading Card Game, would be pushed back to April 2000, which website IGN attributed to the company wanting to focus their efforts on the upcoming Pokémon Stadium for the Nintendo 64.

Over 2000 species of marine animals have been found in the Lough and internationally important flocks of wildfowl and wading birds converge there in winter.

He and his family started the Kokanee Glacier Alpine Campaign for winter sports safety in 2000, two years after his brother Michel Trudeau died in an avalanche during a ski trip.

He spent the Antarctic winter of 2000 on the French possession of Grande Terre, part of the Kerguelen Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, with a few dozen over-winterers, mostly researchers.

No. 1, winter 2000, etc.

A design with too much equator-facing glass can result in excessive winter, spring, or fall day heating, uncomfortably bright living spaces at certain times of the year, and excessive heat transfer on winter nights and summer days.

The sawtooth roof's lighting concept partially reduces the summer " solar furnace " skylight problem, but still allows warm interior air to rise and touch the exterior roof glass in the cold winter, with significant undesirable heat transfer.

The captain and hero, Ibrahim Afellay, was sold to giants FC Barcelona in the winter transfer window, and Hungarian winger Balázs Dzsudzsák moved to the newly rich Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala in the summer of 2011.

Depending on local climate, the transfer of power between the winter goddess and the summer goddess is celebrated any time between Là Fhèill Brìghde ( 1 February ) at the earliest, Latha na Cailliche ( 25 March ), or Bealltainn ( 1 May ) at the latest, and the local festivals marking the arrival of the first signs of spring may be named after either the Cailleach or Brìghde.

The suspension scuppered a move to Bolton Wanderers in the newly-introduced winter transfer window.

Within 24 hours the population transfer occurred at night during winter without notice in unheated cattle cars.

By December, occupancy of the first phase of the new campus construction took place, with the transfer of classes and offices to Galloway Township during the winter holiday period.

The first comes with the game and the second is usually downloadable in February as a free data update to reflect the changes which take place during the winter opening of the FIFA transfer window.

The poor winter weather, which made armoured manoeuvre and the exploitation of overwhelming air superiority impossible, coupled with the massive losses suffered to its ranks during the autumn fighting, the need to transfer some British troops to Greece ( as well as the need to withdraw the Canadian I Corps to northwest Europe ) made it impractical for the allies to continue their offensive in early 1945.

During the winter transfer window, Giampaolo Pazzini was signed and formed one of Serie A's most effective partnerships.

As winter approaches, the temperature of the surface water will drop as nighttime cooling dominates heat transfer.

He made his name playing for San Lorenzo in Argentina from 1998 but signed for Italian side Internazionale in the winter transfer window, January 2000, costing the club € 16 million, rejecting another offer from Real Madrid in doing so.

His performances caught the eye of the FC Porto staff, and during the winter transfer window, he was sold to Porto.

Plastic foam tubing to surround the hose may be used to reduce heat transfer between the environment and liquid in the hose, keeping a cold liquid refreshing in summer, or forestalling the system's becoming unusable due to freezing of the contents in the winter.

In the winter transfer window, despite continuous rumours of moves to Tottenham, Zaragoza, A. S. Roma, and A. C. Milan, Morientes remained at the club for the remainder of the season.

Despite the pre-season odds, AEK underachieved during the first half of the season and lost the title race too early, making Basinas favourable towards a new move during the winter transfer period.

One of the few high points was the winter transfer of star player Sérgio Conceição.

On January 15, 2005, Keller joined German Bundesliga side Borussia Mönchengladbach on a free transfer during the Bundesliga's winter break.

On 12 December 2011, Shanghai Shenhua announced that they have reached an agreement with Anelka to join the team when the winter transfer window opens.

Another interesting case came in 2009, when Real Madrid purchased both Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Lassana Diarra – both of whom had already played European football during the season for Ajax and Portsmouth respectively – during the winter transfer window.

On 31 January 2005, in the last day of the season's winter transfer window, de Pedro was released by Blackburn on a free transfer and signed for Perugia Calcio, where he played only a few matches before joining Swedish club IFK Göteborg, thanks to the presence of former Real Sociedad teammate Håkan Mild, now the club's director of football ; he left after only a few days due to personal reasons, in December 2005.

An array of pipes embedded in the road surface is used to collect solar energy in summer, transfer the heat to thermal banks and return the heat to the road in winter to maintain the surface above.