Global warming and your garden

[Persephone]

WARMING CLIMATE IS CHANGING LIFE ON GLOBAL SCALE, SAYS NEW STUDY A vast array of physical and biological systems across the earth are being affected by warming temperatures caused by humans, says a new analysis of information not previously assembled all in one spot. The effects on living things include ****earlier leafing of trees and plants ****over many regions; movements of species to higher latitudes and altitudes in the northern hemisphere; changes in bird migrations in Europe, North America and Australia; and shifting of the oceans' plankton and fish from cold- to warm-adapted communities.

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NG members notice "earlier leafing of trees and plants"? I realize it's a very short time scale...but...

Inquiring minds...

Persephone

[Bill]

We seem to be having a cooler spring. Leaves out pretty much as usual.

Look at this for weather history going back to 1945 for your area.

Enjoy!

Bill

[Paul E. Lehmann]

On the Paul James gardening show this last weekend he was talking about gardening in the cities. He said that some cities have a growing zone as much as one climate zone warmer. This is because of Urban Heat Island effect (UHI).

I would be cautious about thinking of or planning a garden depending on the supposed "global warming" for every area of the United States or the world. For example, there has been significant crop loss for the wine industry this spring in France and parts of California because of cold snaps in the early spring.

[Billy]

Leafing, I don't know but I have tomatoes flowering, and that is very strange on the north side of this hill.

[Katey Didd]

No, I live in TN and this is one of the coolest darkest springs we've had in years. This morning it was 58F and the heat was coming up. We never needed heat here after May 1st before.

[tstovall]

[aluckyguess]

We wont know anything for another 1000 years, then there will be to many people. It will all work itself out.

[Billy]

Sounds like the evacuation and recovery plan for New Orleans:o(

[Persephone]

1000 years! You gotta be kidding! Manifestations all over the world as we speak. The tipping point is less than a decade away.

Persephone

[J. Clarke]

Remember that you said that when the glacier rolls over your house.

[Billy]

Maybe we should tell the EPA. hey just listed the polar bear as an endangered species because of polar warming. Actually, glaciers should be on the same list. Glaciers are fast disappearing which is bas news because instead of reflecting sunlight back into space, when the glacier is gone the sunlight (heat) gets absorbed by the planet and accelerates the heating.

[aluckyguess]

From what I read lately we should be more worried about global cooling.

[Billy]

You need to improve your reading material. What does disappearing ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica (not to mention the attendant

200' rise in ocean levels) suggest to you? Heating or cooling? Hmmm?

[Paul E. Lehmann]

What did it mean during the time of Eric the Red and the other Viking explorers. It ain't the first time it has happened.

[Bill]

As I with a feeble mind looks at this stuff. The increase of heat has caused much of the ice about to melt. The recently melted ice no longer reflects energy back so it warms things up a bit. Then why the cool spring? Well the ice that melted flows into the ocean where the salt content is lowered. No big deal but the ocean as a heat sink is reduced hence wider shifts in temperature fluctuations.

Bill

Next URL is the devil Al Gore

Next Url is the best we got

[Bill]

[Bill]

[Omelet]

Global warming leads to Ice Ages.

Watch the movie "The Day After Tomorrow".

It's scientifically accurate.

Seriously.

[Omelet]

He is right.

Global warming leads to ice ages.

[June]

I'm in zone 6b, in the mountains of western North Carolina and my rhododendrons started blooming a week ago! That's early for us. My irises started blooming over a week ago and I have a lot of other perennials blooming as well. Last year we had just warm temperatures in December that the forsythia bloomed. Then in early spring we had a week or more of temperatures in the high 70's and 80's. That was followed by a week of hard frost and the whole area lost all the fruit on the fruit trees. I also a Japanese Maple and a bunch of roses that were already in leaf. I thought I lost a second Japanese maple; and in a sense I did. Because when it finally showed some life, the shoots were from below the graft line, so I don't expect to get the same tree as I had before. I also thought it killed my hibiscus, since the whole top appeared dead; but this spring it's sending some life from the base. When I thought it was dead I replaced it. Now I have two!

Regards, June