Global warming rushes timing of spring »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 7 months ago in Science & TechnologyThe 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.
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eddie1071 year, 7 months ago
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The earth is most certainly warming, anyone looking at the glaciers all over the earth can see its effect.
But it is from a series of Volcanos that created a land bridge between the Americas many ice ages ago.
Before the Ice ages came, there were no glaciers, and there was life and diversity all over the planet. Now we only achieve that level at the peak of the planetary temperature right before plunging into an Ice age, which covers NY in half a mile of Ice.
I think I am going to thank my lucky stars for letting me be born in a time of warmth and plenty, instead of a few generations from now.
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Dionys1 year, 7 months ago
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Isolated incidents are what the Global Warming Deniers count on to 'debunk' global warming. I still can't figure out if they just lack anything past a fourth grade education that takes into consideration a GLOBAL picture, or if they're just like the Nazis who deny it because they know they're the most at fault.
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BoxMonkey1 year, 7 months ago
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I don't believe in Global Warming [ to coin a phrase ] , However I do think the seasons are changing . But for different reasons . When Rome was in power , and they decided on a calender , they made it up as they went . July has 31 days , but August did not originally , it had 30 . That is until Augustus Ceaser came into power and demanded an extra day like Julius Ceaser had done with July . And all these leap years , little stuff like that snowballs over 2500 years /- a few years . Now I don't know about the Chineese calender or the Jewish calender , but that is what went on with the Roman calender , the one we and most of the world uses today .
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joeblowe1 year, 7 months ago
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And interesting tidbit, but has nothing to do with it, really. The solstices and equinoxes (equinoxi?) are properly documented and actually do occur at their appointed dates, so we know that the seasons really are NOT sliding around on the calender...{;>D)=
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nostalgia1 year, 7 months ago
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This was an interesting article
Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat
Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them.
In fact, 80 percent to 90 percent of global warming involves heating up ocean waters. They hold much more heat than the atmosphere can. So Willis has been studying the ocean with a fleet of robotic instruments called the Argo system. 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.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...
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SFCGuyW1 year, 7 months ago
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It is the surface water that is heating up, not the water hundreds/thousands of feet down. These surface waters contribute to the air temperature & what plant life can live in the upper layer of the ocean. These plants have a huge impact on how much gasses can be converted by the plants. Additionally, the Arctic/Antarctic ice replects huge amounts of UV & other sun rays back out of the atmosphere, thus keeping the air temperature fairly stable - but as these ice areas melt, less UV is reflected & the atmosphere heats up. This pours melted ice, now as fresh water into the ocean, affecting the reflective power of the ocean thru lower saline levels & affecting what surface plants can survive in the ocean - affecting the oceans ability to convert CO2 & such. Combine that with smaller land green areas & the huge amount of CO2 that humans create & we have a self destructing system that we humans must use our scientific knowledge to attempt to slow down.
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djn3nunez31 year, 7 months ago
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Well there must be some warming of the oceans somewhere because the Artic Ice cap shrunk last summer to it's lowest point in modern history.
Good story though. Never too many facts to base a decision on. There is no accurate model for our dynamic ecosystem. No one really knows what the effect of mans' pollution will be.
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artificialplants1 year, 7 months ago
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This is also famous artificial plants for scientific way -
http://www.neuhaus-artificial-plants.com
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professorT1 year, 7 months ago
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A simple check of the official website for the National Cherry Blossom Festival reveals:
At the NCBF Press Conference, Rob DeFeo, chief horticulturist of the National Park Service, predicts peak bloom for the Yoshino cherry trees around the Tidal Basin and East Potomac Park to be March 27 - April 3, 2008!
The Fesival is scheduled for March 29 - April 13, 2008. Everything seems to be right on schedule. No need to panic.
Just to add balance to this often ridiculous discussion - National Public Radio reported on March 19 that "robotic" temperature sensors have found that the oceans have not warmed. In fact, there may be a trend towards cooling...
Do not panic.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 7 months ago
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I lived in Arlington, VA fifty years ago, and the cherry trees bloomed at a different date each year. They are dependent upon the weather to stimulate their blossoms, and the variations from year to year do not conform to any calendar, either Seth Borenstein's or any other.
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joeblowe1 year, 7 months ago
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Winter storm watch posted for Illinois tonight and tomorrow. Spring may have sprung, but the Global Warming acolytes forgot to notify the weathermen. This morning they were talking about a possible 6-8 inches of snow. I'm sick of all the slushy white "global warming" we got dumped on us here this winter.
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mahalawolf1 year, 7 months ago
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Nuts! The Sahara Desert was formed in one generation. Most global warming fanatics are nothing more then cult followers and Gore supporters:). I agree all forms of pollution should be controlled for the future of our planet. I just don't subscribe to the fanactical approaches of the global warming media and followers.
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HMMace1 year, 7 months ago
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PEOPLE, AND ANIMALS ARE BORN, AND DIE---
WHY SHOULD THIS EARTH BE ANY DIFFERENT???
IT WAS CREATED, AND IT WILL BE DISTROYED...
TIME: HOW MANY ZILLION YEARS HAS THIS UNIVERSE BEEN HERE???
WHERE WAS IT BEFORE???
WHERE WAS IT -BEFORE THE BIG BANG???
CHANGE---LIVE WITH IT
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Wolfie20071 year, 7 months ago
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If it's so warm in D.C. that the cherry trees are blooming early I wonder why, since I live in the south, that my peach trees aren't even budding and they are usually blooming in late March. Splain that! When the glow bull warmers put out anecdotal evidence of glow bull warming it's okay but if anyone who doubts glow bull warming uses anecdotal evidence they are laughed off the thread. Not only looney tunes and moonbats but hypocrites, too. LMAO
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dunkirk1 year, 7 months ago
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ROFLMAO< Its nice to see the anti-global warming crowd out in force today noting all the contradictory evidence like ice has always melted, there was freezing rain somewhere on the planet in June and the temperature was below zero in January in New York and if there was global warming why wasn't it hot. ALtho what can you expect from a group that wants to teach inteligrunt design as science.
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ladybostrom1 year, 7 months ago
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It's snowing in Northern Illinois. Will also be snowing again on Sunday for Easter. I am 31 years old and have spent many, many Easter's with snow here. Spring is not being rushed at all. We do not have leaves on our trees, the grass is brown, and did I mention it's snowing? Global warming is nonsense. This is called a climate pattern, and they have existed since the time of dinosaurs (before actually). I can't believe anyone would want to take what Al Gore says so seriously. What a crackpot! Obviously, if it's snowing here in late March, then this global warming nonsene is not really that global after all.
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normallysilent1 year, 7 months ago
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Eagle Eye, "That's 2 1/2 weeks early."
I don't think so. It says end of month, end of month is 3/29. The norm = 4/6
That would be 6 days.
Come on people they cant even tell us for sure if it will rain tomorrow and they can pin the date a tree is supposed to bloom down to the day.
Yeh right.
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TonyByron1 year, 7 months ago
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Notice the cherry-picking here? No dates earlier than "the 1960s" for comparison of specific events.
Oops, except for this 137 year-old cherry: "A photo of Lowell Cemetery, in Lowell, Mass., taken May 30, 1868, shows bare limbs. But the same scene photographed May 30, 2005, by Boston University biology professor Richard Primack shows them in full spring greenery. Was 1868 an extraordinary year in the northeast US or was 2005?
Who cares, we have a picture that proves the author's bias. I mean proves his point.
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