Plants flower faster than climate change models predict (BBC)

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By Matt McGrath
Science reporter, BBC World Service

Scientific models are failing to accurately predict the impact of global warming on plants, says a new report.

Researchers found in long-term studies that some are flowering up to eight times faster than models anticipate.

The authors say that poor study design and a lack of investment in experiments partly account for the difference.

They suggest that spring flowering and leafing will continue to advance at the rate of 5 to 6 days per year for every degree celsius of warming.

The results were published in the journal Nature.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17924653

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[Javaman]

2. Don't need a scientist to tell you what farmers already know.

I have a sizable garden and I know from my own notes and garden journal that I got flowering about 2 weeks earlier than I ever had before.

The scary part is this, just because you get earlier flowering doesn't mean you still won't get a late or normally scheduled freeze.

My worry was just that, early flowering followed by late freeze equals dead.