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Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 year, 8 months agoThe 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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Eagle_Eye
March 19, 2008, 7:24 p.m.That's 2 1/2 weeks early.
I saw flocks of Sandhills going North the end of February early March, they also were a bit early.
I even laid my 2 eggs the end of November instead of March! My clock is way off.
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BoxMonkey
March 19, 2008, 9:17 p.m.Global warming my butt . We just got dumped on again with freezing rain . Most still do not have power from last weeks ice storm .
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amazed
March 19, 2008, 11:55 p.m.anecdotal, guys --
my crocuses are just blooming now -- it's the first time they weren't up in February since I moved into this house 9 years ago...
It don't mean a thing -- it's weather, not climate.
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Monkey_Scout
March 20, 2008, 12:05 a.m.BS. Who ever wrote this doesn't live in the MidWest. The winter was horrible here, it was colder and it lasted longer than usual. We could have really used some of that global warming here!
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BoxMonkey
March 20, 2008, 1:19 a.m.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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nostalgia
March 20, 2008, 7:07 a.m.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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palamaComment has been removed: Retracted by user
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lestparker
March 20, 2008, 8:58 a.m.this is an opinion piece. Should not be filed under science in any way. What a crock.
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artificialplants
March 20, 2008, 9:08 a.m.This is also famous artificial plants for scientific way -
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professorT
March 20, 2008, 10:17 a.m.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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Cityslicker
March 20, 2008, 10:26 a.m.Ah , the "Joke of the day" is back I see !
Always makes my day , I want some of the stuff these people are smoking , must be some good stuff .
Keep your stick on the ice .
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Cityslicker
March 20, 2008, 10:37 a.m.Gregorian calendar , off , man made has flaws .
Mother Nature always right , season change and so did I , need not wonder why .
Keep your stick on the ice .
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1-2-Oscar
March 20, 2008, 11:16 a.m.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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joeblowe
March 20, 2008, 12:26 p.m.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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mahalawolf
March 20, 2008, 12:56 p.m.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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Wolfie2007
March 20, 2008, 1:22 p.m.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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dunkirk
March 20, 2008, 1:54 p.m.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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ladybostrom
March 20, 2008, 2:12 p.m.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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normallysilent
March 20, 2008, 2:14 p.m.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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TonyByron
March 20, 2008, 3:43 p.m.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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