Spring Arriving Weeks Earlier

[dtotire]

Spring in the Arctic is arriving "weeks earlier" than a decade ago, a team of Danish researchers have reported.
Ice in north-east Greenland is melting an average of 14.6 days earlier than in the mid-1990s, bringing forward the date plants flower and birds lay eggs.
The team warned that the observed changes could disrupt the region's ecosystems and food chain, affecting the long-term survival of some species.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6763511.stm

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. If blooming plants and their pollinating insects get out of sync, each

could perish, along with those creatures up the food web which depend on them. A cascade of environmental collapse.

But that's OK. Who's to say that this is the perfect climate, and that a warmer world would necessarily be a bad thing.