Spring has sprung and all good climate catastrophists are dusting down their annual ‘spring has sprung three weeks early’ story. BBC Science Correspondent Victoria Gill has a three-week-early avian egg-laying tale, which is topped with the obligatory ‘climate change’ headline.
Reporting on a survey in “some parts” of a wood in Oxford, Ms. Gill comments on the mating habits of the great tit. According to project leader Professor Ben Sheldon from Oxford University, observing the birds over time means “we’re also able to ask how extreme climate events – increasingly seen as a risk of climate change – affect the population”.
That presumably would be the climate change said to lead to ever higher temperatures as guessed by laughably inaccurate climate models – temperatures supposedly rising so fast that spring is starting earlier each year.
In fact, spring in England is no warmer than 20 years ago. Despite a rise in the 1990s, the temperature is no higher than the 30-year average. Yet another ‘pause’ makes an appearance in the temperature record.
If we discount the 30% hikes made to recent global temperatures in datasets run by the Met Office and NASA, global warming ran out of steam in the late 1990s. The satellite data for April show the lack of global warming now extends to 91 months. This pause follows the longer standstill reported by satellites from around 1998 to 2012 – since largely removed from the ‘adjusted’ surface databases.
It seems global warming is just too good to let go when seeking to command and control an economy through Net Zero. The Guardian now calls it global heating, and sees it everywhere. In March, it published this doozy: “Nine cattle were struck by lightning and killed in central Queensland earlier this month during an incident experts say could become more common with climate change.”
The Royal Horticultural Society is big on climate change, arguing that increasingly frequent ‘extreme’ weather events are hampering recovery in the natural world. “Most at risk are the species associated with mountain habitat because they will simply run out of places to go as temperatures increase.” The RHS also sees British wildlife emerging earlier in the spring “or staying active longer at the end of summer”.
Well again, whatever is causing wasps to raid picnics a little longer, it does not seem to be any extra autumnal warming. Another 20-year ‘pause’ is obvious from the actual temperature readings.
If anything, the British climate has become a little kinder to the natural world. A gentle 1°C of warming from around 1820, as Britain bounced out of a previous mini ice age, has led to slightly milder winters and warmer summers. Rainfall is marginally higher across England but barely higher than the amount recorded in 1880. Storm wind speeds are less than those recorded 40 years ago. Extreme weather is simply bad weather rebranded, something that is a constant on an island at over 50°N in the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, higher levels of C02 in the atmosphere have led to more vibrant plant growth. It’s heartening that wasps get to live a few extra days, but let’s not forget the thousands of human lives that are saved every year by milder conditions.
The constant catastrophising about the climate – exaggerating the size and negative impact of past rises, ignoring off-narrative data, speculating wildly about the future – is politically inspired and backs the narrative set by establishment elites in business, academia, media and politics, who have become addicted to the huge subsidies, salaries and payments that support the green agenda. It is undoubtedly easier to go along with the current orthodoxy set by those who have influence and power. As we saw in the Covid pandemic, few mainstream journalists seemingly have the intellectual firepower or editorial independence to radically question the set agenda. And if they did, they would likely find themselves out of a job.
Again, as with the Covid experience, constant alarmism is leading to serious mental health issues within the general population. The BBC recently reported that a new project has been launched at the University of East Anglia to address rising climate anxiety. Literature student Meg Watts, 22, was said to have experienced depression after being overwhelmed by the scale of the problems facing the planet. “And she sought therapy after developing disordered eating when trying to cut out food packaged with plastic,” it was noted. Another student was reported to have asked, “What is the point of my education if we can’t stop climate change?”
The Lancet Planetary Health reports that empirical evidence shows that acute and chronic mental health around climate change has risen sharply in the past decade. The arising hazards investigated are said to include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, the exacerbation of psychotic systems, along with “suicidal ideation and suicide completion”.
In 2020, the environmentalist Michael Shellenberger wrote a book called Apocalypse Never in which he said he believed the conversation about climate change and environment had in the last few years “spiralled out of control”. He stated that much of what people are being told about the environment, including the climate, is wrong. Schellenberger spent 30 years promoting green activism, but he decided to write his book “after getting fed up with the exaggeration, alarmism and extremism that are the enemy of a positive, humanistic, and rational environmentalism”.
He added that he believed environmental scientists, journalists and activists had an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, “even if they fear doing so will reduced their news value or salience with the public”.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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I regret to say the earlier spring isn’t having much of a beneficial effect on my mating habits…
Genrally we are all better off with a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake.
The tea and cake lasts longer too…
Not in my house!
Surely if you were truly animalistic you would be mating at the Summer Equinox for a March lamb in 2023?
My days of fathering are over. After our third child was successfully born, I was escorted to the vet to be ‘seen to’.
A Yorkshireman took his cat to the vet’s to be neutered.
“Is it a tom?” asked the vet.
“No, I brought him with me”, replied the man.
Not much of a vet if he has to ask the owner what sex the cat is. Must a bin that Tristan Farnon.
There you are, you see: rather less birds around!
p.s. Don’t worry, I’m just pulling your leg (since no one else will).
Is nobody going to make a parkin cake pun? I can’t stand the tension.
Climate change is real and serious.
Indeed the cimate is changing so rapidly that winter will be here six months early, Michael Mann has done a graph proving that Father Christmas will deliver the presents on 25th August this year.
In your face deniers The Science has spoken.
It is real, I agree, and we should tax ourselves back to the stone age to try and avoid the hell that in 30 years time Aberdeen will be as hot as Manchester is today.
The hell would be if Aberdeen were to be as wet as Manchester is today.
Father Christmas will be delivering presents in the heat of summer in about 13000 years due to axial procession.
*precession
No point denying it , the climate has been changing since the beginning of time and will continue to do so regardless of ‘Carbon Zero’ BS.
We however continue to pollute and damage the planet with destructive deforestation, dangerous chemicals, non-degradable plastics, seriously damaging 5G radiation and mountains of poisonous, unnecessary industrial waste .
Not much of a ‘conversation’ about that is there? Too many profiteering Schwabian “Stake Holder” Corporates Involved !
Agree, stop this nonsense of burning wood from N America in Drax instead of good clean UK coal and all the toxic waste caused by this lunatic obsession with leccy cars and thats most of your list taken care of.
I would say it’s serious but not real.
Those who garden have developed a number of markers of how winter progresses to spring and summer. They include:
I can tell you that in NW London, these markers do oscillate a bit from year to year, but never particularly radically. This year’s fruit set was reliably average, occurring from the first week of April until now (with a few flowers on the apple trees yet to set fruit).
I have seen almost zero variation in the time of the first harvest of lettuce leaves (usually the third week of May for me) and the reappearance of wild lupin, welsh onion and Echinacea Pallida does not seem to vary much either.
What I can say about 2022 is this: there is the potential for a truly epic set of fruit harvests. OK, like all things, adverse weather events can still destroy that somewhat, but the quantity of fruit set this year is almost unrivalled in my experience. Redcurrants, cherry, plum, pear and apple have all set wonderfully.
I have decided to give up on growing spring turnips though – they do better in the autumn in the SE of England.
The regular comfry was flowering over a fortnight ago in the Midlands, I’ve took a ton for compost already, blocking 14 has poked new leaves up in the last week (my B14 cuttings have yet to show tho they’ve only been in ~2weeks)
AFAIK the last frost date hasn’t changed at all, yet the yanks are claiming whole zones have changed…
For non gardeners the arrival of spring means things like:-
More bird song
More flowers in other people’s gardens
Warmer temperatures
More daylight
What’s not to like about these things? I’m sure most people get at least a bit of a lift when spring arrives, and wished it was coming earlier every year.
Only a miserable AGW alarmist would try to claim that the joys of spring coming earlier was a bad thing.
The BBC recently reported that a new project has been launched at the University of East Anglia
Oh the irony!!!
The BBC – spreaders of climate fear par excellance and UEA – climate cheats who deliberately falsified data to hide the “pause” in warming are now worried that decades of alarmist propoganda in schools is causing damage to young minds!
Fear. Another gift that keeps on giving.
“During the Late Cretaceous, the Earth was a greenhouse world characterised by extreme temperatures and high concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Records from the Falkland Plateau in the southern Atlantic Ocean suggest that during the period of peak warmth, which lasted from about 100 to 90 million years ago, sea surface temperatures at middle to high southern latitudes exceeded 30°C, conditions that were significantly hotter than today’s mean annual average of 0°C.”
https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/2019/05/taking-the-temperature-of-a-late-cretaceous-greenhouse-world/
Yes – climate change is real.
Exactly, rockoman! Climate change is indeed very real, and we don’t need to do anything about it!
Unless one’s home regularly gets flooded. Then I’d suggest “up sticks” as the best strategy. Just as little man has always done.
Trouble is that, these days, people believe it is the responsibility and duty of the government to “protect” them and their assets from tides and flood plains.
The Dogger Bank used to be above the North Sea level.
What, doggers have got their own bank, seriously? Is there no end to western depravity?
Their petrol bills are quite high so they have to save their cash in order to maintain their habits.
Does this mean that other people watch them (making a) withdraw(l)?
True, but that was caused by the Storegga Slide, a vast undersea land slip off Norway that sent a tsunami funnelling down between Europe and Britain drowning Doggerland and the low land bridge and creating the English Channel. Only 8000 years ago, which is nothing really.
If we’re lucky, it may warm up to what it was before the little ice age, and SUV’s…
Student Meg Watts? How apt a name is that!
Is there anything we are being told now that is not total BS?
And what are these Chem Trails criss-crossing the sky on every blue sky day really about?
Is anyone remotely interested in asking questions to find out ?
Water vapour from jet engines – the by-product of burning hydrocarbons in air.
When the sky is nit blue, don’t see them.
I live in a sunny area (not UK), about 30 miles from a large airport and under the Europe-South America flight path. Having been alerted to the possibility of “Chem Trails” I started observing the trails of high altitude aircraft. Con Trails from high altitude aircraft disappear completely within 20 / 30 seconds, very occasionally lasting a bit longer. What are called “Chem Trails” last much longer, being visible for 10 to 15 minutes or more as they slowly spread across the sky. They then seem to form a veil as they merge with other trails They are never isolated and are set out in parallel lines covering about 50% of the visible sky and linger for hours. They run parallel to the flight path of commercial aircraft.
The Spanish government conceded some 5 years ago that they engage in this spraying as part of a “Geo Engineering” program to “help the farmers”. This can be seen in the following “Buletin” from the ministry of health.
Unlikely that Spain is alone in this.
Relative humidity means that some contrails disappear quite quickly, and others persist and are spread by the upper winds. No chemicals are involved.
So the Spanish government is Lying! Thanks for clearing that up!
Most people refer to them as vapour trails. Only conspiracy theorists call them chemtrails.
Odd that they began behaving differently a decade or so ago.
A few years ago plenty of mainstream scientists were talking about using jet aircraft to dump particulates into the atmosphere in order to block out the sun.
They say it would be technically easy and cheap to do.
About the same time we observed aircraft leaving trails that do not disperse as they once did (con trails) but instead they slowly spread out forming a widespread wispy cloud (chem trails) that blocked out the sun.
It is obviousl that they are spraying crap into the atmosphere to block the sun.
But ‘The Science’ people declare that such things are tin foil hat terrirory.
Yep.
I trust my eyes and my memory.
Its insulting to have these misleader liars brainwashing the kids in school about the climate changing to the point where many are obsessed and severely delusional about it and terrorising everyone as much as possible about the impending climate disaster plus all the money theyre stealing off the back of this scam – while they literally run covert chemtrails operations to change the weather deliberately. Theyve been doing chemtrails for decades while the public screams “Conspiraloon” at anyone who points this out.
So they go to the trouble of affecting the weather via sraying from large aircraft and then they act all precious and start crying like babies because they say the climate is changing. Time to get shot of these people, Id say.
Excellent chemtrails cocumentary:
FRANKENSKIES
https://vimeo.com/222928194
As David Clews asked in his recent interview with Anna De Buisseret – what does the Establishment actually do that has any value. Its a good question and the answer is very little because their system is a product of their demonic imaginations so everything we now have is in their vile image.
The ADB interview is good but she keeps on with this line of theres no point in going to court because it wont go anywhere anyway which is starting to sound a bit like a scratched record. Lets have the names of the judges acting dishonestly and perverting the course of justice and lets prosecute them then. Something has to give. I hope she is not some gatekeeper.
Anna De Buisseret- The fight for JUSTICE will not stop!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hL1DBSQYWB0I/
The Guardian has no shame:
My month with chemtrails conspiracy theorists
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/22/california-conspiracy-theorist-farmers-chemtrails
‘Dimming the sun’: $100m geoengineering research programme proposed
https://web.archive.org/web/20210329103727/https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/25/top-us-scientists-back-100m-geoengineering-research-proposal
Should say “documentary” haha!
Might be best if you had a lie down in a darkened room, for as long as it takes your fantasies to pass.
Well argued
I really can’t be bothered to read it. Does it explain how the “chemicals” get in the aviation fuel? Is it done at the refinery, or athe distributor or the airport. Do you have any photographs of the tanks containing it? What is the doping chemical? Does it affect the calorific value of the fuel, because I am sure the airline operators would have something to say if it reduced the milage obtainable? Are there any atmospheric assays that quantify this contaminant. Surely there must be some actual evidence , rather than “my mule had twins”.
There is no such mechanism in a commercial airliner to disperse chemicals as you suggest.
Why on earth would you think it’s done by commercial airliners? Why on earth would you think it’s in the fuel? Duuh….
And your evidence for that is?
Contrails today behave as they have always done.
They are vapour trails FFS.
They’re not. Vapour trails disappear within seconds, these last for hours. (See my reply to JXB above.)
Use a bit of sense. They depend on the wind speeds and directions at the plane’s altitude, and a whole range of other atmospheric charactreistics. I have lain in my hot tub (under the flight path to Manchester Airport) on many a day and wondered at the range of different effects on vapout trais, or clouds, as they often turned into.
Study some meteorology, I suggest. Start with relative humidity and move on to contrail formation. Then perhaps upper winds.
Study meteorology, in particular contrail formation and their persistence. Relative humidity and upper winds explain your bizarre theory.
As I said above, read the Spanish government’s ADMISSION.
In the meantime, here’s a picture from my terrace a few weeks ago. Spot the con trail between the chem trails…….
“Ms. Gill comments on the mating habits of the great tit.”. If only we could control those mating habits then we could get rid of both the BBC and all Guardian readers.
Mmm… Tits…
(.)v(.)
I can confirm there has been no change in the weather in the last 80 years- been there, seen it. Its all propaganda your being told. Lies lies, bloddy lies
Spring?! It’s been bloody freezing
Doomsday cultism rules the world, lockdown is a symptom of it.
Funny how the tornadoes in America keep managing to exclusively target non-GMO farmland.
Their invented non-jobs must depend on their hysteria.
‘Doctors & Scientists’ Episode 27: 4-Foot-Long Blood Clots, Rare Cancers + COVID Vaccines With Ryan Cole, M.D.
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/doctors-and-scientists-with-brian-hooker-phd/3vVzGhG804
Great interview with Ryan Cole. More up to date info from the last half. Recommended
Don’t know how old the original comment was (a three-week-early avian egg-laying tale,) but it’s June in 3 weeks time.
Thought June was the beginning of Summer?
Temperature isn’t the trigger for lots of plants. It is the amount of daylight – photoperiodism. The three categories are day long, day neutral and day short. Only day neutral are not influenced by day length. Nature isn’t as dumb or as fragile as these Climate nutters think – if they think at all.
Spring coming earlier? This is yet another example of the elite trying to convince us 2+2=5.
It was only a few hours ago before reading this article that I actually remarked that it feels like Spring is taking longer this year with many trees still without their leaves yet. I guess these trees will soon be lumped in with us ‘Anti-vax’ ‘Discontents’…
EDIT: just wanted to expand on the label ‘discontent’ – this is the name they have prepared for people who have or will move into the countryside/rural to get out of the urban prison that is being closed around us. I’ve had an offer accepted to buy some land with the intention of going off grid and building a permaculture. So because I reject the ‘new normal’ that they’re creating, I am what the BBC et al will call a Discontent and they will turn their venom on me and others like me.
You sound like an incredibly wise person to me. I envy you!
Just go for it and good luck.
2018 Spring near Newcastle had a nice heatwave in late April, haven’t seen one this year. Victoria Gill can go fuck herself.
Can anyone confirm if the east coast of Greenland has warmed up enough to be inhabited again? Like it was before the 1500s.
We’re not supposed to know about that sort of stuff.
Spring early = climate change
Spring late = climate change
Spring on time = climate change
Spring is never going to come, and neither is summer, when you have shit loads of planes spraying their ‘cooling’ shit in the air. Just about every day, the Mrs and I watch as planes zig-zag across the sky leaving trails that form into clouds. BTW – we are nowhere near any airport.
They are vapour trails FFS. Burn fuel to thousands of degrees C and expel the exhaust in a freezing atmosphere at 30,000ft. and what do you expect?
Chemtrails my arse.
I want out of this lunatic asylum. May I suggest reforming the ancient Kingdom of Wessex and proclaiming independence. Rational people with common sense, enjoy life, and who want to live by the principles of common law, would be most welcome in this reformed realm.
Plus Mercia …
Slightly off-topic, what’s the risk to a long-haul flight if the pilot and co-pilot have both taken this dodgy medical treatment and become seriously ill within hours of each other? Many of these flights are over water, without a nearby airfield for an emergency landing.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pilots-injured-covid-vaccines-speak/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=db437bc2-b0c0-457f-883e-19f43e55adf1
It seems a good way to put people off flying though…
Mike Oxlong, are you near a great circle route, say the one to North America? Planes leaving London fly roughly north-west, not west and dump their vapour trails there.
Careful raising this topic John. EF gets a particular bee in bonnet over this issue. EF will no doubt be along in a jiffy to pour scorn and cold water all over it.
I for one share your concern.
Apparently we’re all going to freeze to death be wise of increases in energy costs, at the same time as we all boil to death. Hmmmm…,
My experience of Spring this particular year is that if anything in my neck of the woods it is late. April was by and large bloody bitterly cold. If that is an early Spring the BBC (which is pushing this particular brand of angst) has lots its lost its marbles.
Nice and sunny in Kent during April. Chilly at times but we had a BBQ over Easter, first in years.
You know what they say. Ne’r cast a clout till may is oot.
https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2022/05/04/food-supply-shutdown-deer-fish-pigs-euthanized-crops-not-planted/
Bottom line: grow more of your own food.
yet it has felt colder in march and april the last 2-3 yrs.
Why is this man allowed a free run on an otherwise sane website?
Don’t tell me, you’re a climate alarmist.
Translation:
Climate alarmist’s are utterly barmy.
Not that we needed confirmation.
Environmentalists producing “honest and accurate” reports? Pigs might fly.
I find it laughable that the BBC interviewed a student called Meg Watts over climate anxiety. They are trolling us all the time.
This story obviously came from the same production line that told us breast feeding – sorry chest feeding – is unnatural and cow burps will destroy all life on Earth.
Well, I’m glad, as my heating is now off until October.
”Most at risk are the species associated with mountain habitat because they will simply run out of places to go as temperatures increase.”
The only risk they face, in Scotland for example are wealthy landowners who employ equally unpleasant characters to kill tens of thousands of Mountain Hare each year, because…..mustn’t encourage Raptors who might have the audacity to also occasionally take game in order to survive. As always problems wildlife face comes down to human stupidity and greed…the climate they can easily deal with as they always have done.
Water evaporates to cause rain if you dam up rivers and water does not get to its traditional areas the rain is going to go somewhere else to my mind this is the cause of all the problems. Huge lakes and inland seas have dried up.