It’s messing up Insect hibernation too. In that week of sunny days we had just after New Year’s I saw a few bees and wasps out that must have woke up thinking spring arrived.
Some bits in my garden didn’t stop flowering at all this winter.
The plants rely on a specific type of bee to pollinate them within the narrow window of randy male bees in early spring.
But the changing temperature and weather regimen is moving the timing of plant flowering and randy male bee flight around at different rates, causing the two events to fall out of sync resulting in total reproductive failure.
All aboard the ~~choo choo train~~ vroom vroom car to total ecological collapse!
**Remember :** Current **promises** take us to well over +2°C, almost noone is on track to meet their Paris promises (lower than Glasgow promises), and current **plans** take us to well over +3°C. We’ll be at +1.5°C around 2030, +2°C around 2050, and we’re currently at around +1.1-1.2°C today. And beyond 1.5°C the [risks of properly activating ‘tipping point’ positive feedback loops that take the system out of our control](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0) become very high.
This has happened for the last few years, I’ve noticed daffodils in January.
But then it’ll snow at some point in February. So I don’t think winter is over, quite yet.
Excellent! Less heating bills. We’ll make more great wines! Cheers
This is the last cold winter, it’s only going to get warmer every year! We’re fucked
*”But China”* – everyone, because solutions are too hard.
They found that the average first flowering date from 1987 to 2019 is a full month earlier than the average first flowering date from 1753 to 1986.
The same period coincides with accelerating global warming caused by human activities. The results are reported in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
I don’t get it. the industrial era begins in,87?
I saw daffodils in my garden starting to grow on Xmas day… worrying times ahead.
We have bulbs planted in our garden and they have grown a surprising amount over the “winter”.
Rubbish! We saw snowdrops and other spring bulbs blooming in London on 8 February 1970 – what could be “earlier” than that?
Well, look on the bright side. At least I can save money on full length trousers.
Just doesn’t seem to get cold any more.
I’ve noticed rain in the UK becoming much heavier, almost monsoon like. We never seem to get drizzle anymore.
I’m in the UK Channel Islands and I have seen flowers blooming on shrubs for the last month.
Because they’ve never flowered early before have they!?
Loving the fact that winter is yet to hit us, prepare for freezing weather right up past april
So I’m not going mad, then. I always thought I was crazy when I remembered a time when blackberries didn’t ripen until late august or September, when last year they started ripening in late July. Or when the daffodils started sprouting in late December when they used to stay underground until February at the earliest. Turns out it’s just the fruit of our own labour.
But Torie donors pay good money for us to keep slurping up oil, and not taxing it despite petrol and gas price raises. I believe it was BP who this year described the new price rises as a “cash printing machine”… Tories refuse to even have a temporary tax hike on the companies to offset the artificial surge. Instead poor people will pay more and also pay more VAT.
The oil companies don’t want people to go over to green energy and electric cars until they have gotten every ££ they can from the very last drops of oil. It’s liquid gold, switching to sustainable energy means their liquid gold turns back to black slime and they miss out on billions of ££.
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It’s messing up Insect hibernation too. In that week of sunny days we had just after New Year’s I saw a few bees and wasps out that must have woke up thinking spring arrived.
Some bits in my garden didn’t stop flowering at all this winter.
This is worse than it may appear if it causes pollinator-plant schedules to come out of alignment, as is happening with the [early spider orchid](https://www.botany.one/2018/03/the-orchid-thats-running-out-of-time/).
The plants rely on a specific type of bee to pollinate them within the narrow window of randy male bees in early spring.
But the changing temperature and weather regimen is moving the timing of plant flowering and randy male bee flight around at different rates, causing the two events to fall out of sync resulting in total reproductive failure.
Like the recent finding that [heatwaves render insects sterile long before they kill them outright](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/13/heatwaves-wipe-out-male-insect-fertility-beetles-study#:~:text=The%20research%2C%20published%20in%20the,%2Dquarters%3B%20females%20were%20unaffected.&text=Other%20research%20has%20shown%20that,cows%2C%20sheep%20and%20other%20mammals), this stuff demonstrates the intimate links between the destabilised climate and the collapse of the biosphere, and the quite severe damage that’s emerging even now.
All aboard the ~~choo choo train~~ vroom vroom car to total ecological collapse!
**Remember :** Current **promises** take us to well over +2°C, almost noone is on track to meet their Paris promises (lower than Glasgow promises), and current **plans** take us to well over +3°C. We’ll be at +1.5°C around 2030, +2°C around 2050, and we’re currently at around +1.1-1.2°C today. And beyond 1.5°C the [risks of properly activating ‘tipping point’ positive feedback loops that take the system out of our control](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0) become very high.
This has happened for the last few years, I’ve noticed daffodils in January.
But then it’ll snow at some point in February. So I don’t think winter is over, quite yet.
Excellent! Less heating bills. We’ll make more great wines! Cheers
This is the last cold winter, it’s only going to get warmer every year! We’re fucked
*”But China”* – everyone, because solutions are too hard.
They found that the average first flowering date from 1987 to 2019 is a full month earlier than the average first flowering date from 1753 to 1986.
The same period coincides with accelerating global warming caused by human activities. The results are reported in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
I don’t get it. the industrial era begins in,87?
I saw daffodils in my garden starting to grow on Xmas day… worrying times ahead.
We have bulbs planted in our garden and they have grown a surprising amount over the “winter”.
Rubbish! We saw snowdrops and other spring bulbs blooming in London on 8 February 1970 – what could be “earlier” than that?
Well, look on the bright side. At least I can save money on full length trousers.
Just doesn’t seem to get cold any more.
I’ve noticed rain in the UK becoming much heavier, almost monsoon like. We never seem to get drizzle anymore.
I’m in the UK Channel Islands and I have seen flowers blooming on shrubs for the last month.
Because they’ve never flowered early before have they!?
Loving the fact that winter is yet to hit us, prepare for freezing weather right up past april
So I’m not going mad, then. I always thought I was crazy when I remembered a time when blackberries didn’t ripen until late august or September, when last year they started ripening in late July. Or when the daffodils started sprouting in late December when they used to stay underground until February at the earliest. Turns out it’s just the fruit of our own labour.
Yeah this is very bad:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ocean-extreme-heat-wave-past-climate-new-normal
But Torie donors pay good money for us to keep slurping up oil, and not taxing it despite petrol and gas price raises. I believe it was BP who this year described the new price rises as a “cash printing machine”… Tories refuse to even have a temporary tax hike on the companies to offset the artificial surge. Instead poor people will pay more and also pay more VAT.
The oil companies don’t want people to go over to green energy and electric cars until they have gotten every ££ they can from the very last drops of oil. It’s liquid gold, switching to sustainable energy means their liquid gold turns back to black slime and they miss out on billions of ££.