For decades we have been hearing from experts that spring is coming earlier – due to your SUV.
Early Warning Signs of Global Warming: Spring Comes Earlier | Union of Concerned Scientists
Like everything else with the climate superstition, it is nonsense. Peak temperatures for this date have dropped substantially since 104 degrees at Indio, California in 1910.
The percent of stations over 80F on March 10 peaked in 1925 and 1974.
The fake news Washington Post claims that cherry trees are blooming earlier than they used to.
She says “11 of those instances were post-1990.” What she didn’t mention is that 11 of those instances were also between 1921 and 1953.
1990 | March 15 |
2000 | March 17 |
1921, 1927, 1945, 2012 | March 20 |
1946, 1976 | March 23 |
1938 | March 25 |
1977, 1997 | March 26 |
1925, 1953, 1998 | March 27 |
1948, 1987 | March 28 |
1949, 1989, 1991, 2008, 2011 | March 29 |
1939, 1968, 2006 | March 30 |
1929, 1988, 2004, 2010 |
There is no indication that springs are getting warmer or coming earlier in the US. Alarmists cherry-pick a single year, month or day, and reinforce their superstition with it. They rely on the fact that very few people remember the past.