Spring comes sooner to Phila. - and that's not good

[XemaSab]

On May 2, 1908, as he strolled along the Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County, Bayard Long collected a flowering sprig of redbud.

He mounted it, labeled it, and added it to the herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences, where he was the curator.

A century later, but just miles away in Chester County, botany graduate student Zoe Panchen also found a redbud in flower. But this time, the short-lived blooms had appeared much earlier. It was April 13, 2010.

Those two data points - and 2,537 others that Panchen analyzed - show a dramatic change in this region's flowering plants.


Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20130521_Spring_comes_sooner_to_Phila__-_and_that_s_not_good.html#G0mkg0RcgiB4zpVv.99

[onehandle]

1. It's like August today in Philly.

Our species is so dead.

[AverageJoe90]

2. "Our species is so dead." Oh, puhleeze, enough of this nutty shit already!

And you wonder why some people still have a hard time taking us seriously.....

[AverageJoe90]

3. Interesting, but given the low amount of temp. change since 1900 so far.....

The sensitivity of plants has probably played a significant role as well. Spring hasn't gotten all that much warmer in most places(except maybe in areas that've been really built up within the past 60 years or so), TBH.