From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

You may have heard a cringeworthy advert on the radio recently from the Woodland Trust.

It features a woman putting on a soppy voice droning on about the “climate crisis”. She is advertising this campaign:

The climate crisis is having a profound impact on nature. It’s urgent that we understand how wildlife is coping with shifting seasons, warmer temperatures and unpredictable weather patterns. 

Climate change has already accelerated spring’s arrival by an average of 8.4 days compared to the early 1900s. Now, we need you to help us find out whether the signs of spring are changing too.

Let us know whether you’ve spotted any of spring’s three vital signs – frogspawn, a singing song thrush or flowering blackthorn. Your records are crucial in helping us understand current threats and how climate change is affecting the health of nature.

So don’t wait – scroll down to submit your records before 31 March 2025 and play your part in nature’s recovery. 

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/things-to-do/natures-calendar/springs-vital-signs

Is that the extent of the crisis then? Spring coming 8 days earlier than a century ago?

In other words, we now typically get the sort of temperatures on 1st March that our great grandfathers had on the 8th March!

Or to put it another way – Oxford now gets the same temperatures in spring that London had a century ago.

And this is causing a “profound impact” on nature? Seriously?

In any event, as we have always known, nature does not do averages. Spring temperatures have swung up and down by as much as three degrees from year to year. Yet nature seems to have managed perfectly fine.

Indeed, it is arguable that spring weather is much more predictable now than in earlier decades:

But the facts don’t fit with the Woodland Trust’s climate agenda.