Tuesday February 10, 2009, 4:24 am
The rude Care2 trolls will insult this posted article, but the truth - whatever that may actually may be - will come to light regardless!

In Georgia (USA) this shift is more like 30 days advanced of normal timing!

Our weather has been so unstable as to give a person the feeling of 'something wrong on the wind'.

How about your area???


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Tuesday February 10, 2009, 6:03 am
All my Trees are starting to bud and its too cold with ice and snow now covering the mountains. Then when they blossemed last year the bees could not come out it whent too wet and cold for them so none got pollinated. hence no fruit last year. it is confusing for these plants and shrubs low lands are flooded, destroying all the crops of Wheat and barley.
Have to get these crops growing in the higher ground or we will have a flour shortage. That will be trouble for the bread and cake industry so make sure you can get a stock of flour and bake your own bread. Love to you all Janet.

Tuesday February 10, 2009, 6:40 am
Previous Article Submission - For Those Who Have Not Read It Yet:

Earth's Critical Transition Phase

Tuesday February 10, 2009, 11:52 am
Taking a Time Machine Ride Back to the 1960s or 1800s?
By Joe D'Aleo
Monday, February 9, 2009

There are signs our weather is taking a time machine ride back to the regimes of the 1960s or even the late 1700s early 1800s.

Our climate operates in cycles, which favors different regimes of weather. We have come out of a few decades that thanks to a warm Pacific resulted in a dominance of El Ninos and its typical southern storm tracks and warm, dry western North America.

The Pacific has cooled and now favors La Ninas, which have dominated the last two winters. This has resulted in a more northern storm track (and as we reported in earlier stories (here and here and here), record monthly or seasonal snows).The Atlantic is cooling too. The AMO has declined from its 2004/05 peak. The sum of the PDO and AMO we have shown correlates well with US annual temperatures.
In earlier reports, we have shown how the solar cycles also have a profound affect on climate (for example here and here). An active sun through direct and indirect factors leads to warming oceans and through them the land, and a quiet sun to cooling of oceans and land.

In the last century, we are with the cooling of the oceans, and a quiet sun most like the 1960s (graph below), a cold era as shown in the graph above.Longer term the sun is behaving like it did in the last 1700s and early 1800s, leading many to believe we are likely to experience conditions more like the early 1800s (called the Dalton Minimum) in the next few decades. That was a time of cold and snow. It was the time of Charles Dickens and his novels with snow and cold in London.Archibald has estimated that if indeed this early 1800s analog is real, a significant cooling is possible.During these cold modes, more La Nina winters like this occur, El Ninos occasionally develop, tend to be briefer and weaker and thus colder and snowier than the El Ninos of the warm eras. If a major volcano occurs, the cold deepens.
See the original for multiple graphs.
http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?ref=rss&a=167

Tuesday February 10, 2009, 12:09 pm
Climate change isn't "wrong". It just is! And we have no control over it. Try going to the article I posted above your comment Amena and take a look at what we know about climate cycles.

Tuesday February 10, 2009, 12:57 pm
For the past three yrs, my forsythia has been budding and even flowering at the tips during the extended, warm autumns. Has even happened in the mid of winter, meaning that when spring finally arrives, there is very little flowering as the plant is exhausted. Same is happening with some of the trees and other flowering bushes. The plants are confused and I find this quite disturbing. Winter starts later and ends later. Not this winter, but the 2 or 3 previous lasted well into May with some of the coldest, snowiest weather in March rather than January or February. Summers have been especially short and more a continuation of spring; both, extremely wet and cool. Seems more like the northern west coast than the east. Oh, and, yes, fewer bees noted last year with reduced fruiting as consequence. Also, where are all the birds? Yes, feels like something is wrong.

Wednesday February 11, 2009, 11:15 am
noted with thanks

Wednesday February 11, 2009, 11:52 pm
Only a global warming denialist like Judy (and maybe Joe D'Aleo) would insist that because human activities are ADDING to a natural trend, that the natural trend is all that matters and we can ignore what humans are responsible for. That attitude is so asinine that I can't even laugh at it.