Climate Change Is Warping The Seasons!”

By Paul Homewood

h/t Patsy Lacey

The seasons aren’t what they used to be.

People who live in Earth’s middle latitudes are accustomed to a spring, summer, autumn and winter. If you’re in the northern hemisphere, you may have noticed plants flowering earlier than usual. It’s not your imagination: a 2022 study revealed that spring blooms are arriving a month sooner in the UK due to climate change.

Temperature tells many plants when to start growing in the spring. Ashton says it isn’t clear how plants sense this, but again, pigments in their cells probably play a role.

“[Plants] sense the days getting warmer and alter their spring development in a manner akin to humans feeling warmth on their skin and so stepping out with fewer layers of clothing,” he says.

That’s where climate change has complicated things: rising air temperatures have yielded shorter, milder winters. Since 1986, plants in the UK now greet spring 26 days earlier, on average.

This relatively rapid shift has severed an arrangement plants and animals have negotiated over thousands of years.

“Insects that are used to feasting on April-flowering plants may find themselves arriving a month late if warmer temperatures mean that the plants now flower in March,” say Chris Wyver and Laura Reeves, PhD candidates who study pollination and climate change at the University of Reading.

https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-warping-the-seasons-221893

This sort of nonsense has been debunked plenty of times before, yet so-called experts still repeat it.

So let’s start with the first obvious lie- “has severed an arrangement plants and animals have negotiated over thousands of years.”

The idea that Britain’s climate has remained unaltered for thousands of years until the last three decades is palpably absurd. There is ample evidence that the Little Ice Age was a much colder time, but also plenty of evidence of much warmer periods before, interspersed with cold ones. Maybe Wyver and Reeves should spend a bit of time reading the likes of HH Lamb.

Somehow the birds and the bees managed to survive all of these climatic changes!

But much more important are the massive swings in temperature from year to year, at times as much as five degrees. These swings far outweigh the almost imperceptible amount of warming in the last three decades:

There is not, and has never been, such a thing as a “normal spring”. And nature certainly does not do averages. Instead it is highly adaptable to changes in weather, on an annual or even day-to-day basis.

And as HH Lamb knew, changes in growing seasons are nothing new. The study highlighted by The Conversation looks at changes since 1986. But that marked the end of a much colder period as far as springs were concerned in England. According to Lamb, the onset of spring between 1963 and 1980 arrived 16 days later than it had done between 1920 and 1950.