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Glaciers are shrinking, animal ranges are changing, flowers too, and they bloom earlier than they did. How much change do you need? Flowers are a case in point. William Wordsworth wrote a famous poem about daffodils, describing coming across a "host" of golden flowers. His sister recorded that walk in her diary, so we know exactly when and where it happened. April 15th 1802. Present-day vistors who visit the site on that day find only the occasional bloom still in flower, they almost all flourished and died weeks before.
No surprise. 1802 was in the middle of the Little Ice Age. Learn first, then post.
Figure 1: Source: Figure 7c in the IPCC FAR
Relative Homogeneity of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and The Little Ice Age (LIA)
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “Hockey Stick” graph produced solutions for three facts challenging the claims of key IPCC climate scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU). The problems appeared in Figure 7c in the 1990 First Assessment Report (FAR) (Figure 1). The three problems it created…