Climate Change Broke 250 Years of Record in United Kingdom
Spring has arrived a month earlier in the UK since the 1980s The pattern may be found in 250 years of records all throughout the world. Scientists have been recording the shifting seasons across the British Isles for almost 200 years. These long-term records have now shown an alarming pattern. The arrival of spring, which is marked by the blossoming of flowers after a long winter, is roughly a month sooner than it used to be. The findings were published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a journal of biological sciences published by the UK's national science institution, yesterday. Over 400,000 individual observations of flowering plants from around the United Kingdom, dating back to 1753, were used in the study. These statistics, gathered and collated by the Woodland Trust in the United Kingdom, currently make up the country's biggest database dedicated to the study of seasonal changes in plants and animals. What Scientists Think? “The consequences of an early fl