{"id":519,"date":"2014-10-31T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T12:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/?p=519"},"modified":"2014-10-31T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T12:16:58","slug":"wake-up-nature-its-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up Nature It’s Halloween !"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a bee and a hoverfly buzzing around a newly flowering bramble in my garden in North Norfolk today – Halloween 2014, 31 October.\u00a0 This is supposed to be when nature is going to sleep – undoubtedly the pre-Christian origins of the belief in what led to ‘Halloween’ – when trees safely shut down into frost-tolerance for the winter, when insects and other animals hibernate or go into over-wintering conditions.\u00a0 Not when spring flowers start to bloom.<\/p>\n

The temperature is 17.C.\u00a0 The “long term average” here from 1981 – 2010 was 14.4 for October and 10.2 for November … and before that 30 year ‘climatology’ ?\u00a0 Something lower.\u00a0 It’s about time weather forecasters stopped saying “how well we are doing” when they report ‘above average’ winter temperatures, and start admitting that we are doing badly.<\/p>\n

How about climate scientists giving them a UTA as a benchmark ?\u00a0 An Unpolluted Temperature Average from before the anthropogenic (human pollution) signal really kicked in ?\u00a0 Then we could talk about Polluted Temperatures and Unpolluted Temperatures.\u00a0 Which would be more honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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