global warming????

I have these crazy plants that are doing things they shouldn't!!!

a corkscrew hazel producing catkins


and a salix (willow) with buds and even flowers!


Anyone else getting any unseasonal activity? (in their plants!!!)

(Excuse the double image on the second pic - I was too lazy to go outside in the cold, cold rain and took these through the kitchen window - quite forgetting they were double glazed!!!)

[ 26. November 2005, 03:06 PM: Message edited by: michaelmasdaisy ]

 

Global warming. I wish it would hurry up. Its freezing here :D

 

Ah, but the weather people also say besides global warming, we could be entering a new ice age....do you think they might be edging their bets a bit :D

 

I also saw on teletext (sad isn't it to read teletext/ceefax? - nearly as bad as spending lots of time on the internet!) that the current global warming is nothing to do with pollution but that it's all to do with very active sunspots and that governments are well aware of this.

 

if Bush knew what a sunspot was.. he d ve told us allll about it!

 

Just keep your fingers crossed the Gulf Stream stays in its current pattern. If that shifts, then we will enter another ice age - as indeed we have before andI do not want it to shift in my life time please.

The off cold winter is fine - but more than that, and I emigrate :D

 

I think the last few days have proved one thing.
Its not really global warming, its to do with where the weather is coming from. If it comes from the north or north east in the winter its gonna be cold. If it comes from the south or south west it will be mild.
The small temperature changes the scientists are talking about are not really noticeable.


Where're you gonna go Fran?

 

And a return to the south westerly's mid week. yeeeesssss - long may they last. But even from the north, a dying down of the wind, meant gardening today.

Bout the only country that would appeal in climate terms is New Zealand. I like our seasons, and that is the nearest to ours I know of.

 

I'm sure that when I watched the many programmes on the Asian Tsunami they mentioned that when the earthquake occurred, the earth moved on its axis by appoximatley 1 inch. This may not seem much but by evolutionary standards, we could have jumped thousands of years.

Maybe this holds some responsibility

 

Did it jump forward or back Ickleweed?

Seriously though, we won't know if they are right unless we come back in a thousand years!

These scientists do not all agree with each other and if you look back at history the world has naturally had many changes over it's existence hasn't it!
:eek:

[ 27. November 2005, 07:56 PM: Message edited by: jjordie ]

 

And many tsunamis - as I recall current research some affecting the UK, one in Somerset in the 1600 - could the shifting of the earth's plates impact on the axis, - but they like tsunamis, have happened many times before.

Not sure I'd like to live in Los Angeles! :eek:

 

Too right, Fran - that really would give me a freaky time(just like now with all the SNOW outside! Driving earlier was a nightmare!

Yet now the sun's trying to get out! AAAArgh!!!!

 

Brrrrr, I saw on the weatherforecast that another lot just appeared - even we may get some - but I hope not.

It ain't nice when you got to drive, less about the snow, more about the other idiots on the road :(