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YOUR VIEWS ON CLIMATE CHANGE?

pansyfacepansyface Posts: 21,898
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A survey of flowering times has been started in order to monitor climate change.


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/19/plum-job-uk-public-track-fruit-trees-climate-study-fruitwatch


Apophthegm -  a big word for a small thought.
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 25,209
    Plenty of bees about and the usual suspects are in bloom plus some that never died. The fruit trees don't seem to be particularly early here. Do the pollinators like forsythia?There's plenty of that too - unfortunately. Usual time for it too, I think
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,130
    We've been here 5 and a half years now and winters are clearly very different from what we had in Belgium but not one has been the same as the last.  The first year we had drought from arrival on October 1st to the following November and no frosts.   

    The following year we had a -8C and one day of snow.   Last year was cold with enough rain but then we had drought from April.   This year it's been a long, cold, wet winter for here and more storms than usual.

    I don't usually bother with noting dates of when things flower but maybe I should.  The pears and apricot I planted out are in full bloom and the nectarine in the polytunnel is going over but the two peach trees are still just showing buds.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 16,678
    It changes. 20 years ago they bleated we were going in to a new ice age. We were going to be too dry, not enough water, plant gravel gardens.  This year it's too hot, and wet.  In ten years it could all be different again.  Climates kept changing long before the industrial revolution, no one then decided it was down to the peasant with his gathered wood fire.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,130
    Rather fewer peasants then @fidgetbones but if we accept that England was once all wooded before humans came back after the Ice Age then mankind's activities will have had a significant effect on climate, accelerated exponentially since the Industrial Revolution and the invention of the internal combustion engine.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 16,678
    So too many people then?
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 8,033
    We were in Banff, Alberta some years ago and saw an exhibition of photographs of the National Park taken in the 1890s and early 1900s.  One set of images showed how one glacier had retreated over that period. 
    There certainly are problems with more severe weather, but trying effectively to blame it all on actions in the past 50 years is totally inaccurate.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,828
    edited March 2022
    fidgetbones said:
    So too many people then?
    Yes  :/ 
    But what we’ll do about that other than wage war on each other and succumb to pandemics, only the dogs know … 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • pansyfacepansyface Posts: 21,898
    edited March 2022
    It’s a shame that the survey doesn't want any records from years gone by.

    I have been keeping a daily diary since 01/01/2000 (a New Year’s resolution) and have got all sorts of records in there of flowering times.
    Apophthegm -  a big word for a small thought.
    If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
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