muso wrote on Jan 26
th, 2014 at 5:04pm:
I'm not very inventive when it comes to mindless name calling... er testicles deprived of physical sensation (will that do?)
Join the club Muso. When an inarticulate poster bombards me with obscenities instead of addressing the content of my post - I draw a total blank trying to come up with something equally as unpleasant to say back to them. Some of us just haven't got it in us.
muso wrote on Jan 26
th, 2014 at 5:10pm:
The following picture shows a tree taken in 2003 and 2007 (right). I guess that you'd state (in your capacity as honest greggary - an unbiased observer of course) that this proves global cooling Grin Grin
Like Aussie - I don't understand the science and try to stay out of the GW debates, but your pictures of the extreme changes to a tree is something I can recognise in my own garden, although not to the same degree. The seasons are coming later and don't seem as intense as they used to be aside from this summer which has seemed a lot hotter than perhaps the last 5 summers, but certainly not the hottest summer we've had in the last couple of decades.
The plants are flowering later and although this is a little thing, when the bees arrived around Christmas - there were no flowers in bloom and I found dozens of dying bees.
Perhaps there was a simple explanation, but the tiny closed buds the bees were trying to pollinate were at least 6 weeks behind in development so they couldn't access the nectar. Birds are nesting later also - so I can see the changes, but perhaps this is a natural occurrence every hundred or even a thousand years.
We don't have records going back far enough to confirm this though.