[NormsRevenge]

National Phenology Network: http://www.usanpn.org/

IPCC report on phenological changes:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-chapter1.pdf

National Park Service on cherry blossoms:

http://www.nps.gov/nama/planyourvisit/cherry-blossom-bloom.htm

University of California at Davis butterfly changes:

http://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/education/stat2/data

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee lilac data: http://www.uwm.edu/mds/gcb_2006.html

[goldstategop]

Load of bunk. Spring arrives Friday. So what's the problem?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[thackney]

Great timing of posts

The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988333/posts

...The buoys can dive 3,000 feet down and measure ocean temperature. Since the system was fully deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global oceans.

“There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant,” Willis says....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Never mind that it was the coldest winter in decades.

Anecdotal evidence that "proves" global warming is "science," anecdotal evidence that disproves it is... anecdotal.

[csmusaret]

It’s not due to Global Warming. The culprit is Daylight Savings Time. All those hours add up over time.

[Old Professer]

“National Phenology Network at the U.S. Geological Survey to monitor these changes.”

Soon to be followed by a National Phrenology Network made up of the very same scientists and their personal physicians.

[crusty old prospector]

Barbra Streisand.

[NRA1995]

The capital's famous cherry trees are primed to burst out in a perfect pink peak about the end of this month. Thirty years ago, the trees usually waited to bloom till around April 5.

Ohfercryinoutloud.......FIVE DAYS EARLY?????? Get a grip, libs!!

[Eleutheria5]

So now global warming is making birds tweep and flowers blossom? Sheesh.

[BenLurkin]

ORLY?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1988338/posts?page=1

[kidd]

Yes, and 750 years ago the grapes were beginning to sprout in Newfoundland about this time. But grapes don’t grow there anymore because its too cold the whole year.

[Between the Lines]

My grandfather always said that the last real cold spell came near Easter. If you have an early Easter, you have an early spring.

Easter will not come this early again for another 248 years.

[DuncanWaring]

Globally, it was the coolest December through February since 2001 and a year of heavy snowfall. Despite that, it was still warmer than average for the 20th century.

And cooler than average for the 12th century.

[metesky]

Spring is busting out allover!

This is bad, really bad. I hope it doesn't happen again next year.

[vpintheak]

Spring? What spring? It’s 5 degrees in Fairbanks, the normal is about 27. It’s supposed to get down to -15 tonight. Take your globull warming and stuff it!

[Mr. K]

UMMMMM ISN’T THERE A CONSENSUS THAT THIS IS THE coldest YEAR ON RECORD IN A LONG TIME???

[wideminded]

I just noticed some cherry trees last night that looked like they had been in bloom for quite a while. This was in the Northwest. Essentially we had no winter this year.

[lonestar]

Easter is earlier this year than anybody living today will ever see again.

[Old Professer]

The Lowell pages 2 and 3 of the report from which this article was so cleverly adapted appear to be missing and the report seems to have been written two years ago; but this remains in the report concerning the writer’s likely use of these two now missing photgraphs:

“The striking photograph at the top of page 2 was taken in the Lowell Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts,
on Memorial Day, 30 May 1868. In the photo, the trees have not yet leafed out, despite the late date, and people are wearing heavy clothing. The photograph below it, taken on the same date in 2005 at the same location, shows the trees fully leafed out. At least two of the large, leafless trees in the 1868 photo are still alive and had fully leafed out in 2005. An exceptionally cold spring probably caused the delayed leaf-out in 1868; the mean temperature from February to May of that year was 4 degrees F (2.2 degrees C) lower than the average over the past 150 years and nearly 5 degrees F (2.7
degrees C) colder than February to May 2005.”

http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1886.pdf

We have only the author’s analysis of a single photograph to even accept that the two implicating trees in question are indeed remaining today.

Read the link (PDF) I enclosed, for it does go into the same sort of explanation this journalist attempted, but please don’t just buy into trying to compare bloom-out periods between two “cherry-picked” photos between two temperature extremes as proof of generalized warming.

[holymoly]

More than 30 scientists told The Associated Press how global warming is affecting plants and animals at springtime across the country, in nearly every state.

Uh-huh. You bet.

NOAA Climate Prediction Center 6-10 day forecast:

The 8-14 day forecast doesn't look much better.