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Flowers bloom 6 days early - We're all DOOMED!
"News" release from Clear The Air website:
Washington, DC. "Clear the Air, a national public education campaign to combat global warming, today released a survey of scientific literature on global warming's impacts on seasonal cycles. More and more studies show that global warming is throwing off the seasonal rhythms of familiar species such as northern cardinals, tree swallows, lilacs and honeysuckles.
Quick, Ethel - my pills! (Oh, wait - I don't have an Ethel. Oh, well.)
The data highlight the urgency of the global warming problem and the need for swift congressional action.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Isn't "swift congressional action" an oxymoron? (With the emphasis on the moron.)
"The science is clear:
Like hell it is; lying is the same as breathing to these clowns.
global warming isn't off in the distant future or happening somewhere else, it's happening across the nation and it's causing our seasons to creep out of balance," Angela Ledford Anderson, director of Clear the Air "Global warming is already forcing changes to the signs of spring we are all familiar with like the Cherry Blossoms along the tidal basin."

The survey, Season Creep: How Global Warming is Already Affecting the World Around Us, finds that scientists who study changes in natural phenomena (when trees bud and when birds lay their eggs), are increasingly pointing their fingers at global warming as the reason for disturbing changes in wildlife, plants and the natural environment.
Disturbing? How disturbing, you may ask. And they may answer:
"This survey should reinforce the need for us to treat global warming as an emerging and significant problem," said Professor Mark D. Schwartz from the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "We know that global warming is already changing the complex relationships of the natural environment and it threatens to bring even greater changes in the future. As scientists, we need to better understand the connection between climate and periodic biological phenomena. This is one of the reasons why I am working with my colleagues to implement a National Phenology Network."

Some of the species scientists have found to be already affected by global warming and changes they are experiencing are:

  • Lilacs and honeysuckle are blooming six days early;
    6 days early? (Earlier than what, precisely?) We're all doomed, I tell ya'!
  • Canadian geese, robins and whip-poor-wills are arriving earlier;
    Hell, around central Virginia, the robins don't leave. And a lot of the Canada geese have decided to stay around, too, since they know people will feed them here. (Golf courses hate them.)
  • Spring snow-melt in the Western U.S. is happening 4 weeks earlier than in the mid 20th century;
    Ummm, care to tell us how today compares to, say, the early 20th century? Or the 1800's? And why is a longer growing season a problem, exactly?
  • Lakes and rivers are freezing six days later and thawing six days earlier;
    Hmmmm. 12 days less of winter. And (except for ski resorts) this is a problem because....?
    and,

    "These changes are so striking because they are taking place in so many places around the country," said Bruce Stutz, author of the new book Chasing Spring. "Gardeners, birders, and people who just generally enjoy the outdoors are seeing these changes. As I traveled around the country following the changes of the spring season, I found researchers and scientists who are studying the problem and concluding that the gradual warming is the main culprit. We stand to lose a lot,
    Yeah - a lot more winter. So who in the normal world objects to this?
    and the biggest loss may be to the familiar and reassuring rituals we know as springtime."
    Like your familiar ritual of tossing out new "studies" to scare people into doing something economically disastrous to our country?
    Global warming is throwing out of sync everything from plants and animals to springtime itself, but Congress still refuses to give in to loons deal with the problem," said Angela Ledford Anderson. "We urge the President and Members of Congress to listen to the science and deal with global warming before the sun's normal cycle turns it into global cooling again it's too late. We need a national policy on global warming that guarantees destruction of America's evil capitalist economy pollution reductions quickly enough to screw up everything before someone figures out we're full of it avert the most dire consequences of global warming."
    The "report" is available at the like - if you care.
    Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-03-23
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