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Global warming?
Persephone wrote:
...or *something*! Even in So. Calif coastal, where it's usually mild, we're not having much winter. Garden things are happening out of season. For example, the leaves haven't even finished falling off my Wisteria, when a few blooms already appear. And my Cape Jasmine is flowering up a storm, way ahead of time. I usually prune roses late January, so went ahead and did it, but had to remove a lot of lovely, lush new foliage. Any other "early" stories out there? Persephone -- The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates Lost three roses last year (mid-Northern Ontario) because we had an early spring thaw February/March that lasted three weeks - just long enough to persuade the roses it was time to start setting buds. Then we had what used to be normal March weather, a couple of weeks of around -5 to -10C overnight, with mostly below freezing days, too. The really scary thing about climate change is that the models predict that a climate flip or turnover sould happpen in less than a century. That is, some reasonable sets of inputs into the models predict very rapid climate changes, others sets (only slightly different) predict slow changes. But we don't know enough about the present climate to be able to say which sets of input assumptions reflect reality. So we're stuck with guessing. We could have a mostly tropical planet by 2100. But the ecosystems can't adapt that fast. So --- |
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