Climate change?

[MacSpook]

Anyone else notice out of season growth?


My Wee Bee dwarf rhododendron proudly displaying new buds today




And my dwarf scots pine also budding



In the last 3 - 4 weeks daytime temps have been about 10 centigrade higher than the seasonal norm but I didn't expect to see new growth at this time of year.


Mac

 

[BrianBay9]

There are times when some of my trees seem to confuse autumn for spring and unexpectedly push new growth. Sometime they even show some weak flowering. Not much of an issue here since I never see freezing temps.

 

[bonsaichile]

My roses were blooming well into November. A really cold spell (8 degrees!) two weeks ago killed the flowers. It was nice to have the flowers but it felt eerily unnatural at the same time.

 

[Pixar]

Almost summer here in NZ been raining for the last 2.5 weeks

 

[Fonz]

As for the buds on your scotch pine, that's normal. They set themselves like this in autumn and go crazy in spring

 

[It's Kev]

I had itchy fingers the past few weeks so I’ve been buying trees out the wazoo, they all get shipped from way up north so naturally break buds when they reach me

HOWEVER

got some random citrus tree (possibly lemon) that sprouted on the car port which I yanked out and potted up in September (so it’s been in my area for it’s entire life), and it suddenly popped new growth a week ago.

 

[Potawatomi13]

One of 9 Bristlecone Pine started aberrant growth September this year. Stalled promptly without further extention one month later. 1980 saw 112 degrees F mid October, last 100 degree day Oct 18. 1966 had bare chest weather until early Nov. Winter 1963 Arctic front sub freezing/sub zero days, nights, clear sunny skies several days in row. Strange weather happens. Alarmism not necessary.

 

[penumbra]

As stated above, bud development of Scots pine in autumn is normal as is the flower bud development on your Rhodie. All of mine have big fat flower buds and have had them for awhile. Be happy that you will have flowers next year.

 

[AJL]

Fuchsia, Salvia and Hebe all still flowering here and Camellia even has a few blooms open, but its going to stop soon as our first real frost is on its way this weekend

 

[It's Kev]

Been think in by a lot about this post lately and I found out that AccuWeather actually compares temps on a particular day to the previous year

So we did kinda debunk climate change for the reasons our trees are acting weird, but I still made interesting observations:
Check out all my new buds
Elm is on me coz I chopped it

Here’s that lemon I mentioned earlier

Cotoneaster was stable since I bought it, and 2 months later suddenly popped that brand new leaf

Bougie also been with me for 2 or 3 months and looking poorly, then suddenly it has awoken

Maybe it’s the fact that they suddenly get sun with me, maybe it’s the coffee grounds, maybe nature is just being a troll

 

[misfit11]

Strange weather happens. Alarmism not necessary.

Of course. Although they are related, climate and weather aren't the same thing. Weather extremes have always existed. What's different is the frequency of these extreme events, the duration, and the intensity. The earth's temperature has warmed 1.8 degrees since the turn if the century and continues to increase. Heat records are broken every single year. This increase in temperature effects global weather patterns resulting in unpredictable weather events. The climate is changing regardless of those who choose to stick their heads in the sand due to political beliefs, conspiracy b.s., or some weird religious affiliation. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. This can be easily demonstrated with a simple laboratory experiment. Burning fossil fuels that would have otherwise remained sequestered in the earth's crust results in 33,600 metric tons of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere every single year. Remember, this is fossil carbon not modern carbon found in organic matter bound up in living organisms. Once you learn the science of climate change it becomes undeniable. It's not really even that complex. What's complex is the effects of warming the earth. Scientists can make predictions about the consequences of warming the planet but they don't know the all the specific outcomes. They just know it's gonna get weirder and more extreme.

Climate deniers like to paint those who accept the science as alarmists and crazy. That's fine. The same type of folks also locked Galileo up for saying that the earth wasn't the center of the universe. Thankfully, there's enough rational-minded people out there that are willing to take the overwhelming majority of climate scientist's (the guys who are experts on this stuff and have conducted decades of research on it rather than just some moron sitting in front of his computer in his underwear with a "theory") word for it and do what needs to be done to turn the ship around.