Climate Changes Shift Springtime in Europe

gollum123 writes to mention a BBC article on a study of Europe's changing climate. The study collated information from 17 nations and 125,000 studies involving 561 species. The results indicate that, at least in Europe, 'Spring' is coming earlier and earlier every year. From the article: "Spring was beginning on average six to eight days earlier than it did 30 years ago, the researchers said. In regions such as Spain, which saw the greatest increases in temperatures, the season began up to two weeks earlier. The findings were based on what was described as the world's largest study of changes in recurring natural events, such as when plants flowered. The team of researchers also found that the onset of autumn has been delayed by an average of three days over the same period."

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Thats odd

[WatchTheTramCarPleas]

I thought there was supposed to be a cooling trend in Europe due to the disruption of the Atlantic currnets. I have heard such a disruption could be caused or worsened by global warming. So it seems that any change in Eruope's climate could be atrubuted to global warming.

Re:someone's going to blame 'greenhouse gasses'

[nido]

This paper is notable in that the author says that the change in ocean temperatures is what's driving the climate changes we're starting to take notice of. As you note, he says that he /believes/ that the change is due to the boogeyman of the day, "greenhouse gasses". What's important is not his analysis of the data, but the data itself, which clearly shows that the world's oceans have been heating up over the last 50+ years..

[13] Our discussion here has not been to minimize the
impacts of warming of the lower atmosphere due to
increasing greenhouse gases, we are simply placing Earth's
heat balance in perspective. The response of the Earth's
climate system to changes in radiative forcing is often cast
as the response of the Earth's surface temperature to these
forcings. This is understandable because we live at the
Earth's surface and there has been a lack of subsurface
ocean data with which to conduct Earth system heat balance
studies. Improved scientific understanding requires that we
study the response of all components of the Earth's heat
balance, of which the world ocean is the dominant term.

(from pg 3 of the pdf linked to in gpp, emphasis added)

Increased volcanic activity is all over the news, but only if you know to watch for it.

There were reports that Mount Fuji in Japan didn't have any snow last winter, a volcano in Alaska that was erupting off and on for some time, Mt. St. Helens has been especially active over the last year, the dead zone off oregon, etc...

from my recent mailing list traffic:

BULLETIN ITEM: Dead Ocean Area Off Coast Of Oregon Continues

MWM: This is most likely caused by underwater volcanism along the Juan De Fuca Ridge, which is about 20% volcanic along its 500 mile length. Occassional volcanic eruptions occur along the Ridge (Rift) which can create gigantic megaplumes of hot mineral water. Could be there is very little oxygen in the plumes, it most likely would have reacted with the minerals, leaving dissolved oxygen at nil. If so, these is a hardbinger of what is likely to happen with greater frequency and magnitude as the Earth Changes accelerate.

(followed with text of an AP article)

The author of that bit said in another recent email:

Global Warming is unequivocably being caused by underwater volcanism which is heating the bottoms of the oceans which is changing currents and radiation and reflection characteristics of the oceans which is changing the climate regimes.

In March I could make strong claims related to such, but by spending more time slogging through the obscure sources of scientific information and reading between the lines, I CAN PROVE IT BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT. The oceanographers, bless them, for the most part do not undersand how the immensely important data they are sitting on adds up. I do and all of this is sitting in rough draft form in a new title, some 280 pages of text and graphs, called

Major World Trends 1875-2025: A Strategic Brief on Global Warming & The Eight Geophysical Changes Which Are Profoundly Altering The Earth

  I am VERY INTERESTED IN SEEING THIS BOOK TAKEN BY A MASS PUBLISHER, PRODUCED IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES, AND TOWARDS THAT END I WILL ENTERTAIN A RELATIONSHIP WITH AN AGENT. I VASTLY PREFER WEST COAST OR EUROPEAN RELATIONSHIPS, FRANKLY I AM ADVERSE TO DEALING WITH NEW YORK BUBBLEBRAINS.

As the book hasn't been published yet, I'm disinclined to share the source, as the materialist slashdot moderators will slander me for the messenger (who's definitely in the 'vitalist' camp), and not the message he's discovered...

Oil is still a dirty, dirty business, and we'll all be better off once we're free of the stuff. But better to crucify it on its real demerits, and not on false charges.