Remember this solemn advice from the Met Office?
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/guide/i…
According to research, Gardening in the Global Greenhouse , spring has advanced by two to six days per decade and autumn has been delayed by two days per decade.
Impacts on gardens
• Water shortage is likely to be the most serious single impact of climate change on gardens. With an increase in the level of rainfall during winter, and summers likely to become drier, gardeners may need to plan to store winter rainfall and irrigate in summer.
• Gardeners will need to adapt their planting and garden management practices to ensure survival of their gardens in the changing conditions.
• Gardeners will need to think about drought-resistant bedding and perennial plants like marigolds, petunias or geraniums, especially in south-facing or free-draining areas.
• Herbicide spraying will need to take place earlier in the year to have the greatest effect.
Greater threats
• While a warmer climate and the opportunity to grow new plants may be welcomed by domestic gardeners, heritage gardens may face particular difficulties in preserving a traditional display of plants as climatic conditions change.
• Throughout the UK, hilltop gardens will be particularly prone to drying and to gales, while low-lying gardens will be susceptible to flooding.
• Lawns will be at risk from the red-thread (Laetisaria fuciformis) disease, which thrives on warm, wet conditions, and will need year-round maintenance.
Gardens in the future
• It will be easier to grow fruit from warmer climes. Silver maple and black cherry trees could thrive in warmer weather.
• The increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, integral to the process of photosynthesis, will also mean that plants can grow faster and stronger. This will help in the battle against pests and diseases, as they will be more robust.
Impacts on plants
The growth of a plant is controlled mainly by light levels, the availability of carbon dioxide, water, nutrients, and temperature – all of these elements will be affected, directly or indirectly, by climate change. According to research, in Europe as a whole climate change is predicted to wipe-out between 11 and 17% of current species.
The way plants respond to drought conditions, combined with increased temperatures, will be of most concern to gardeners.
Annual plants will often flower more rapidly in conditions of water stress and will subsequently set seed earlier. This will curtail the flowering season and they will wilt and die earlier.
In the future plants in the UK will be affected by climate change in a number of ways:
• Increased carbon dioxide levels will increase rates of plant growth and perhaps development (bud burst, flowering and leaf fall)
• Changes in temperatures are expected to bring an earlier onset of growth in spring and a longer growing season
• Mild winters may reduce the yield of fruit trees, because colder temperatures are needed to break the buds
• Increased temperatures will aid the growth of more plants from warmer parts of the world
• Higher temperatures and decreased summer rainfall will cause stress, especially in plants with extensive, shallow, fibrous root systems
• Annual moisture content of soils is likely to decrease by 10-20% across the UK by the 2080s, with substantial reductions (of 20-50%) in soil moisture possible in the summer by the 2080s
• Fungal diseases will thrive with the wet winter conditions.
If:
A They can’t forecast weather and
B. They can’t tell us what Climate Change will bring what bloody use are they?
All of it, every single word has been proven to be complete and absolute nonsense, for this I pay my taxes?
Update:
EDIT @ Bacc: Your “Youf world is changing”
I know it is.
Since this advice was given UK has suffered worst floods in recorded memory, insect life has taken a pounding as have the birds.
Last year I had to sow my beans three times before I got a crop.
All this in a “warmer drier world”?
Literally, what planet are you on, obviously not the same as mine?
Update 2:
EDIT @ Bacc: Your “Youf world is changing”
I know it is.
Since this advice was given UK has suffered worst floods in recorded memory, insect life has taken a pounding as have the birds.
Last year I had to sow my beans three times before I got a crop.
All this in a “warmer drier world”?
Literally, what planet are you on, obviously not the same as mine?
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I guess it’s not a surprise that Flossie is always performing floccinaucinihilipilification on the Met Office.
EDIT for Baccheus: It’s not just flossie that’s doing a prognostication sideshow, did you see Mike L’s answer?
“Spring was 2 months late in Missouri and other states .”
It’s amazing that he knows it’s 2 months late when there is still more than one month left in spring! Not only that, but with temperatures in the 80’s and higher back there today it seems like the 2 months late forecast is already busted, just minutes after he made it. It’s not just Missouri, either–record high temperatures of 1+ occurred in California yesterday, and one town in Minnesota hit 102 today.
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Research indicates that forecasts by experts (i.e. scientists) are no better than naive (i.e. by laymen) forecasts. None of the forecasts used in climate science can be shown to be scientific. Predictions of what will happen 50 to 1 years into the future cannot be validated–or invalidated. There is no way to demonstrate that they have any skill whatsoever.
Weather forecasting is useless beyond 2 weeks into the future. The assertion that ‘climate’ is not weather, and can be accurately forecast, when weather cannot, is an unsupported assertion. Research indicates that the error intervals grow as the time horizon increases, not the other way around.
To anyone familiar with the scientific method, or the principles of scientific forecasts, the idea that the Met Office forecasts are useless drivel (beyond 14 days) is no surprise at all.
Source(s): http://www.academia.edu/1070105/Global_Warming_For…
You are pretty smart to see what happened in the 2080s. How do you do that?
Indications are that Spring is arriving earlier.
Butterflies
http://www.ukbms.org/overallPhenology.aspx
Birds, trees, flowers,
http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/findings/spring/…
So once again your ignorant rants make absolutely no sense. You are not even aware of how unaware you are. Youf world is changing. But if you never read you don’t know what is written. If you never learn you never know what has been learned. If you never go outside you never know how your world is changing. Why not spend a little time learning rather than posting your series of totally ignorant rants. What possible good do you think comes from ignorant rants other than demonstrating so clearly how ignorant you are?
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Their under the delusion that Earth will be arid like Mars . Spring was 2 months late
in Missouri and other states .
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They can forecast accurately 1 to 2 days ahead and reasonably 1 week ahead, they should stick to that as they obviously don’t have a clue about longer periods.
Bacheous you have clearly lost it, just going by this spring, shows how stupid you are.