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Gardening Telegraph weekly email
This weeks email from the Gardening Telegraph is particularly
interesting as it deals at length with climatic change. I have copied part of their email below to give a flavour of their weekly contribution. " What to do in your garden this weekend 17 - 18 January Ignore the rain - officially it's spring No, it's not your imagination: spring is actually arriving earlier almost every year. Climate change in the past 50 years has brought forward the season by about three weeks, from April to March. Dr Tim Sparks of the centre for ecology and hydrology in Cambridge, said no spring had arrived sooner than the season of 2002, when the first frog-spawn appeared on Dec 10, 2001, and the first primroses in October. Only a few reports have been received so far, but spring 2004 is on course to beat 2003, which was also earlier than average, and could overtake 2002. Frog-spawn was found in Penzance on Dec 19 and primroses have been seen in 24 places as far north as Northumberland. Both usually appear in March. Snowdrops, which typically begin to bloom in February, have been sighted in 15 parts of the country. "We are in a period where records are broken constantly," Dr Sparks said. "The 1990s was the warmest decade on record and plants and animals have responded. It is undoubted that we have entered a phase of climate change." Dr Sparks was speaking after the launch last week of Spring into Science, a campaign run by the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Woodland Trust to encourage more people to report seasonal indicators. In spring these include the first ladybirds, tree leaves, swallows and bees. The information will help phenologists studying patterns of the seasons. a.. If you want to help report the seasons, contact the association at www.the-ba.net where you can download a free wallchart to help you monitor the first signs of spring. Garden chemicals: time to check" Snip..... Anyone wishing to obtain the Gardening Telegraph weekly email needs to scroll to the bottom of this site http://tinyurl.com/3gabw and find 'Click here for your weekly gardening email' Regards, Emrys Davies. |
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Emrys Davies wrote: This weeks email from the Gardening Telegraph is particularly interesting as it deals at length with climatic change. I have copied part of their email below to give a flavour of their weekly contribution. Well, it tells you something about the intelligence of the average Telegraph reader, I suppose. " What to do in your garden this weekend 17 - 18 January Ignore the rain - officially it's spring The Telegraph is read by the people who think that they run the country. No, it's not your imagination: spring is actually arriving earlier almost every year. Climate change in the past 50 years has brought forward the season by about three weeks, from April to March. It may be news to the Telegraph hacks, but there is a whole month (called February) that occurs between January and March. Strange, but true. Dr Tim Sparks of the centre for ecology and hydrology in Cambridge, said no spring had arrived sooner than the season of 2002, when the first frog-spawn appeared on Dec 10, 2001, and the first primroses in October. Only a few reports have been received so far, but spring 2004 is on course to beat 2003, which was also earlier than average, and could overtake 2002. It might help to know how spring is defined in this context. Frog-spawn was found in Penzance on Dec 19 and primroses have been seen in 24 places as far north as Northumberland. Both usually appear in March. Snowdrops, which typically begin to bloom in February, have been sighted in 15 parts of the country. Aw, gee. My 25 year old copy of Clapham, Tutin and Warberg says that primroses flower from December to May, and snowdrops from January to March. I can witness this, from the time I lived in the West Country and the times I have walked in late spring in the colder parts of the north. "We are in a period where records are broken constantly," Dr Sparks said. "The 1990s was the warmest decade on record and plants and animals have responded. It is undoubted that we have entered a phase of climate change." Dr Sparks was speaking after the launch last week of Spring into Science, a campaign run by the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Woodland Trust to encourage more people to report seasonal indicators. In spring these include the first ladybirds, tree leaves, swallows and bees. The information will help phenologists studying patterns of the seasons. That may well be true, but is not shown by the dumbed-down examples used in that article. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Gardening Telegraph weekly email
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martin wrote: " What to do in your garden this weekend 17 - 18 January Ignore the rain - officially it's spring The Telegraph is read by the people who think that they run the country. Worse, much worse, the Telegraph is read by the people who do run the country. No, they read the Financial Times. Or the Scotsman :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Gardening Telegraph weekly email
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Gardening Telegraph weekly email
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martin wrote: " What to do in your garden this weekend 17 - 18 January Ignore the rain - officially it's spring The Telegraph is read by the people who think that they run the country. Worse, much worse, the Telegraph is read by the people who do run the country. No, they read the Financial Times. Or the Scotsman :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Gardening Telegraph weekly email
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From: (Nick Maclaren) Date: 15/01/2004 21:49 GMT Standard Time Message-id: In article , martin wrote: " What to do in your garden this weekend 17 - 18 January Ignore the rain - officially it's spring The Telegraph is read by the people who think that they run the country. Worse, much worse, the Telegraph is read by the people who do run the country. No, they read the Financial Times. Or the Scotsman :-) Really, these days I thought they read the washington post. ....Thinks for a moment... Actually the person that runs the country probably reads noddy and big ears go fishing. -- Rhiannon http://www.livejournal.com/users/rhiannon_s/ Q: how many witches does it take to change a lightbulb? A: depends on what you want it changed into! |
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"martin" wrote in message ... On 15 Jan 2004 21:49:15 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , martin wrote: " What to do in your garden this weekend 17 - 18 January Ignore the rain - officially it's spring The Telegraph is read by the people who think that they run the country. Worse, much worse, the Telegraph is read by the people who do run the country. No, they read the Financial Times. Or the Scotsman :-) If only they could read :-) -- Martin I think they can read fine, It seems to be the arithmetic that's causing them grief. -- Martin & Anna Sykes ( Remove x's when replying ) http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm |
Gardening Telegraph weekly email
"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
... snip The fact that nature wakes up earlier and earlier in the year is not because spring arrives earlier, but a consquence of overall global warming. There is a natural progression with a period of 18000 years if I remember correctly, caused by a wobble in the earths rotation which mean that the seasons really are slowly shifting. -- Martin & Anna Sykes ( Remove x's when replying ) http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm |
Gardening Telegraph weekly email
On 16 Jan 2004 12:32:10 GMT, emon (Rhiannon S)
wrote: Subject: Gardening Telegraph weekly email From: (Nick Maclaren) Date: 15/01/2004 21:49 GMT Standard Time Message-id: In article , martin wrote: " What to do in your garden this weekend 17 - 18 January Ignore the rain - officially it's spring The Telegraph is read by the people who think that they run the country. Worse, much worse, the Telegraph is read by the people who do run the country. No, they read the Financial Times. Or the Scotsman :-) Really, these days I thought they read the washington post. ...Thinks for a moment... Actually the person that runs the country probably reads noddy and big ears go fishing. big ears *goes* fishing shirley? -- Martin |
Gardening Telegraph weekly email
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:30:19 -0000, "Martin Sykes"
wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . On 15 Jan 2004 21:49:15 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , martin wrote: " What to do in your garden this weekend 17 - 18 January Ignore the rain - officially it's spring The Telegraph is read by the people who think that they run the country. Worse, much worse, the Telegraph is read by the people who do run the country. No, they read the Financial Times. Or the Scotsman :-) If only they could read :-) -- Martin I think they can read fine, It seems to be the arithmetic that's causing them grief. Try comparing the recent government press release about the report of House of Lords sub-committee on pensions and the actual contents of the report -- Martin |
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