Autumn scene
Hardly a climate crisis either way, as the author points out. But the alarmist propaganda stream has to keep offering something, however threadbare or contradictory.
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Climate activists are raising alarm this weekend with claims that climate change is making autumn leaves change color earlier and drop to the ground earlier, says James Taylor @ Climate Realism.
These claims, however, contradict their longstanding claims that climate change is resulting in exactly the opposite – later color change and later leaf drop.
CNN published an article typical of what the corporate media are publishing this weekend. The CNN article is titled, “Trees are losing their leaves earlier because of climate change.”
Reporting on a speculative newly published study in the journal Science, the CNN story claims, “Increases in spring and summer productivity that come as a result of elevated carbon dioxide, temperature and light levels actually drive trees to lose their leaves earlier, the experts found.”
Just last year, however, Yale Climate Connections published an article claiming, “As temperatures warm, the fall season has been delayed.”
The article added, “As the climate has warmed during the past few decades, the onset of fall colors across much of the Northern Hemisphere has been delayed. In the eastern United States, fall foliage arrives an average of two weeks late compared to the 1980s and 1990s….”
So, which is it?
Full article here.
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December 6, 2020 at 07:24AM
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