Have you personally seen something tied to global climate change?

[hedgehog]

I've lived here 24 years. For 23 years, I never saw a single tick. This year, I've been taking them off the dogs on a routine basis. The vet told me that a lot of her patients are reporting ticks for the first time. I have to believe it has something to do with a subtle shift in our weather.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. In Alaska we've been seeing it for a while now.

I moved up here in 1975, and to see how far many of the glaciers have receded is really, really sad. Plus we've had really terrible fire seasons because of the dry conditions and the bark beetles. In 2004 and 2005 alone, over 11 million acres burned up here. And, of course, everyone knows about the arctic ice pack.

We feel like the canaries in the coal mine.

[Winterblues]

4. We also had our first "official" case of rabies this last year.

I have lived here for sixty five years and never saw any fleas until the last five or six years..

[kestrel91316]

6. Rabies is widespread in North American wildlife and AK is no exception.

I don't see any link to climate change there.

The fleas, OTOH........FLEAS IN ALASKA?????WTF??????

[Arctic Dave]

7. Don't forget about all the beach erosion all along the coastline.

Also, it's almost november and I'm walking around in a long sleeve shirt in prudhoe bay. It's 25 degrees today.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Yes. We can grow Oleander and Bay Laurel in Raleigh. Our planting zone has increased

from 7 to 8. Plus, our drought years are increasing. So, yes, significant and clear impact of climate change.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Wearing shorts in Mexico City in April

:-)

Yes, it is THAT HOT.

[kestrel91316]

5. I have lived in the San Fernando Valley 26 years. It has gone from a place

needing AC to keep homes liveable maybe a dozen days a year to needing it all day long for months on end. And I had to give up gardening because I was not able to keep tomatoes and peppers and corn and other "heat-loving" veggies alive to produce.

Nights are on the whole getting warmer faster than days. It is late October and we are STILL having ghastly hot nights.

[Lebam in LA]

8. We didn't have any June Bugs this year

Not sure of the cause but every other year they have been a real pain.

[hedgehog]

10. Hmmmm.... I haven't seen any lady bugs hibernating yet.

[Thirtieschild]

9. Hummingbird migration was a month later this year

We live on the rufous hummingbird migratory route from Alaska to Central America. Until this year they arrived en masse in early July - this year the majority got here in early August. I'm no expert but it sure looked as if they stayed in Alaska a month later than they used to.

[uppityperson]

11. Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau is wayyyyy back from 20 yrs ago.

[handmade34]

12. bird migration patterns are most definitely changing

[Mrs. Overall]

13. I have things still blooming that are normally dead by this time of year--

petunias, geraniums, fuschia. It's a bit odd.

[Sisaruus]

14. Poison ivy

It is taking over my flower beds and shrubs.

[hedgehog]

15. Add in - I've never seen any ticks on ME until today, and

I found 2!


:yoiks:

[Mendocino]

16. The black flies up north are about five weeks

ahead of when they came 10 to 15 years ago. The mulberry trees here start bearing fruit in late April instead of early June. I see robins year round where back in the day to see even one in the winter was very unusual. Most winters we don't get below zero, where it was common years ago. Ice fishing has disappeared around here (western Lake Erie). The fall color used to peak around October 10, now about October 24. I still have garden tomatoes to eat.

[Robb]

17. Denver old-timers talk about ice skating on various city park ponds

...none of which have frozen in my memory.

I do, however, make a distinction between weather and climate. :shrug: