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Offline rangerrebew

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Sorry, ABC News, Early Cherry Blossom Bloom Is Due to Urban Heat Island, Not Climate Change
« on: March 26, 2025, 09:20:36 am »
Sorry, ABC News, Early Cherry Blossom Bloom Is Due to Urban Heat Island, Not Climate Change
 
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H. Sterling Burnett
March 26, 2025
 
 
ABC News ran a story this week reporting on the early bloom of the cherry blossom trees in Washington, D.C., attributing the early bloom to climate change. This is false. Although the cherry blossom bloom has arrived earlier in recent years, the cause is the population increase in D.C, and development that has caused a localized heat biases from the urban heat island (UHI) effect, causing fewer late season freezes and higher average nighttime temperatures in the area. The same is true for Tokyo.

The reporter in ABC News item, “Cherry blossoms blooming earlier due to climate change,” says that “Washington’s iconic cherry blossoms are approaching peak bloom, and it’s happening earlier due to human-amplified climate change.” This change, while not catastrophic is disrupting travel to see the blooms, causing travelers who come to D.C. to see the bloom annually to have to plan for earlier vacations.

Similar stories have run in past years around this time of year over the past decade, including in the Washington Post in 2023, and the BBC describing a similar situation in Tokyo in 2024.

https://climaterealism.com/2025/03/sorry-abc-news-early-cherry-blossom-bloom-is-due-to-urban-heat-island-not-climate-change/
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Re: Sorry, ABC News, Early Cherry Blossom Bloom Is Due to Urban Heat Island, Not Climate Change
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2025, 10:13:03 am »
Climate is variable.  Nature responds accordingly.  Trees have been on this Earth longer than Man.  They wouldn't have survived unless they were able to adapt.
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Re: Sorry, ABC News, Early Cherry Blossom Bloom Is Due to Urban Heat Island, Not Climate Change
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2025, 10:44:21 am »
I've been preaching the heat island effect, and NWS recording locations  and urban creep for decades. Finally glad the rest of the world has caught up with me.
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