Global warming [hoax] show elicits varied views

Scientists and others involved in the “Seasons of Change: Global Warming in our Backyard” exhibit sponsored by the Brown University Center for Environmental Studies and the New England Science Center Collaborative met last week to look at the project.

The exhibit, which features videos depicting how foliage will be affected in the next 200 years if the Earth keeps warming and how Boston and other areas along the New England coast would be flooded by a projected increase in sea levels, is funded by a $1.74 million grant from the National Science Foundation, according to project manager Richard B. Polonsky.

The exhibit includes videos by a Cape Cod lobsterman who says water that has warmed by several degrees in the last 30 years or so is affecting the health of lobsters.

Another video shows Alvin Clark, the owner of Clark Sugar House in Langdon, N.H., detailing how changes in climate are affecting his business. Included in that part of the exhibit is a chart detailing sugaring operations from 1959 to 2009. That shows the starting date for collecting sap from his maple trees is about three weeks earlier than in the early 1980s and the ending date is about two weeks earlier.
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“It can’t go on. It’s going to end,” Steven B. Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund and the main scientist behind the exhibit, said of New England’s maple syrup industry.

[2007]

An unusually cold spring lowered water temperatures about six degrees, and lobsters are less active and less likely to feed when the water temperature is cold.

[Yesterday]: Late-breaking winter delays maple syrup season

...the sugar water flows only when the weather tells it to, and the long, cold winter has delayed the season.
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Sugar farmers throughout Highland County try to tap their trees in early February and run piping to holding tanks, ready to collect sugar water and boil it down to syrup by the end of the month.