Run for the hills!  Pretty pink blossoms allegedly showed up five days ahead of "schedule" in Japan this year

One reason for early blossoming was "a warming climate and urbanisation" as a result of the warming effect of cars, heaters and air conditioners, added Takashi Yoshida, a climate expert at the JMA.
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However, Nobuyuki Asada, a member of the Japan Cherry Blossom Association, warned that already many trees were "not blossoming as well as they used to" due to the effects of global warming.

"With the change in temperatures and a more erratic rainy season, I am not sure that we will still have cherry trees in 50 or 100 years," he said.

But that black stuff is NOT carbon dioxide

After being stuck in traffic behind any large diesel-fueled vehicle, seeing that plume of black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe, smelling it and yes, even tasting it, you cannot convince me or any other person with a lick of common sense in their head, that this smoke, on a large scale, isn’t harmful to our atmosphere. Climate change or not.

You had me at "pessimistic"

KEVIN Rudd has given his most pessimistic forecasts yet of getting the world to agree to climate change policies while economies collapse.

“The degrees of difficulty have got greater,” he said.

Climate change: Natural cycle or man-made phenomenon?

Kiwis are getting bored with the global warming debate, at least our enthusiasm for leading the world in the fight against it is falling as the predicted doom and gloom doesn't seem to turn up here. [Via An Honest Climate Debate]