First Day of Spring

If this is the first day of spring, why were my crocuses blooming weeks ago?  Why were the migrating birds here over a month ago?

In the last half of the 20th century, the spring emergence of leaves, frogs, birds, and flowers advanced in the Northern Hemisphere by 2.8 days per decade.  In an article entitled “Springing Too Far Ahead,” David George Haskell, a professor of biology at the University of the South, noted that in his lifetime (he’s nearly 50), springtime has advanced about two full weeks.

If you don’t need to be a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing, neither do you need to be a climate scientist to observe global climate changes.  Just get outside of Trump Tower and walk around Central Park occasionally.  

When Bush beat Gore (?), I was depressed, thinking we were losing precious time to deal with planetary warming.  After eight years of President Obama, I began to have hope.  Now we are not only losing momentum, we are actually regressing.