Phenology and Climate Change

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About Phenology and Climate Change

Phenology is the study of the times of recurring natural phenomena especially in relation to climate.

Phenology offers real evidence that climate change is happening now. No more contradiction and political waffle. This is as real as it gets, the rest living in denial will soon be part of a flat-earth-science fellowship.

Future generation should then look back and study carefully who did what to change what was so obviously common knowledge.


The UK Government\'s Chief Scientific Advisor has described climate change as a bigger threat than international terrorism. The Prime Minister has said it is a "challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it radically alters human existence."

It is the biggest threat to the natural world and will have huge implications for the way we live our lives.

Figures released by the MET Office show that 2004 was the fourth warmest year globally since records began in 1861 and the fifth warmest year for England. The last ten years have seen nine of the ten warmest years on record, with only 1996 not making the top ten.

The evidence is damning and predictions for the future horrifying. At a meeting of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001, more than 150 scientists and government representatives unanimously accepted that climate change in the 20th Century could be attributed to human activity. Average temperatures worldwide have increased in the last century by 0.6°C, but are now predicted to rise by up to 5.8°C by 2100.

Loss of semi-natural habitats in the last century from agriculture and development. Every single supprot living system on Earth is in decline.

Natural sites that survive are fragmented and isolated, operating as islands in hostile surroundings.

The speed of climate change will place huge demands on species to move. Those unable to mak eth emove will simply disappear.