Posted on 11/30/2022 11:56:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa's Gauteng province, including the city of Johannesburg, fill with small white butterflies. Some land in people's gardens, allowing a closer look at the thin brown markings on their wings. Those markings give the butterflies their name: the brown-veined white butterfly (Benenois aurota).
This year, the butterflies have arrived early.
That may seem unimportant. But, to phenologists like myself, it's evidence of changes in the environment that require close attention.
Climate change is intangible to many people. We know it is happening, but our larger surroundings look the same—for now. It's difficult to feel the 1.1°C post-industrial global temperature increase. But we do notice when the jacarandas flower earlier or butterflies arrive in our gardens earlier. This is important in raising public awareness regarding climate change.
In an article published earlier this year, my students and I used media reports to quantify how the timing of the annual butterfly migration had changed over nearly 100 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Greta Thunberg pushing her way past security guards at the United Nations and rushing in, falling on her face in front of the Secretary General’s podium,
shouting hysterically: “I saw them. I saw them swarming over my head. The white butterflies. They’re here. (sobbing) The white butterflies.”
AOC says we have less than 12 years so who gives a damn about butterflies...
Butterfly #1:
OK, which one of you trolls started free beer in Gauteng province rumors? I know it’s fun to mess with the humans but I could have used another few weeks of rest.
Its difficult to feel a 1.1C increase that was an aggregation of unequally distributed temp stations which was tortured with adjustments in order to come out as an increase by either people or butterflys living in a specific areas with climate and weather changing many degrees every day. It is even more difficult to not view the moron who wrote this as either laughably stupid or a complete fraud.
Or the calendar.
How does a sign that winter is arriving early mean that the climate is warming?
Maybe "thank" could be used.
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