not many people know
Paul Homewood
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation:
Species in Britain are under threat as they are 'cheated' by seasonal changes brought on by climate change.
On average, key events that herald the start of spring are occurring Nine days ago, external than a quarter of a century ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cly24dxeer1o
The only people who were defrauded were the authorized payers of the BBC!
According to an article written by HH Lamb in 1982, spring started later on average in the 1960s and 1970s than 30 years ago due to global cooling.
“The average spring arrival date in Oxford has changed from March 4 between 1920 and 1950 to approximately March 20 between 1963 and 1980″
Climate, history and the modern world – p274
In short, the climate is now almost what it was a century ago!
As is the case most of the time, a relative lack of extremely cold weather pushes up average spring temperatures.
The warmest Marchs on record occurred in 1938 and 1957, and temperatures have never reached such high levels in recent years.
As for the idea that there is some monolithic thing called nature that has a biological clock, that's just ridiculous. Nature does not make averages.
As the chart above shows, averages mean nothing. Temperatures can vary by more than six degrees each March, with changes of four degrees common. However, there is little problem with nature's adaptation, or perhaps “reaction” is a better description.
It wouldn’t be a BBC article without an almost mandatory mention of extreme weather:
“Climate change will bring higher temperatures, but it will also bring more extreme weather, leading to disruption among some species.”
There is, of course, no evidence that spring weather becomes more extreme. Take rainfall as an example:
Since the dawn of civilization, humans have celebrated the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Only the BBC could turn this into some kind of disaster!
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