It's a pity the researchers didn't notice spring was a little late this year, in fact daffodils in Wales were a month late and supplies were very short for St David's day. To make the giant leap from seasonal variation over a very short time period, 30 years, to global warming and climate disaster is quite irresponsible but is the norm these days for scientists and researchers hooked up to the global warming paradigm. After all it brings in lots of grants and jobs for life, and they will never be called to account for misleading the public.

Global temperature is not rising rapidly, this is the claim based on the IPCC "Hockey stick" graph, which has just been emphatically de-bunked. Temperatures were warmer in mediaeval times and not a whiff of carbon dioxide was involved. New "record" temperatures merely show the influence of urban heat islands where readings are taken. UK temperature has not risen above 1990 levels in the last 15 years and the current decent weather is quite a change from the 60's and 70's, when winters were very cold and most summers were mediocre. The period 1961-90 is the reference period for the constant "above average" claims, yet this was one of the coldest periods of the 20th century and also the period with the greatest increase in CO2. Our current warmer weather didn't manifest until 1987 and temperatures rose by around 2.5 degrees over a period of 3-4 years because of a strong El Nino influence, not because of cumulative CO2 emissions.

Personally I subscribe to the Homer Simpson school of weather forecasting: weather gets warmer.....weather gets colder, weather gets warmer..... weather gets colder, its the weather stupid, duh.