Gardening Map Changes for Global Warming

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glenn scherer of VT;
I haven;t seen your name before, but there are lots of people who comment on this site that still DENY global warming. They have chosen NOT to believe that there is global warming, and no amount of broadcasted scientific evidence changes their mind.
This was a simply-written, but instructive piece of writing, and I am hoping that those who refuse to believe in global warming will begin to see these small signs (plants blooming early) are evidence of a serious problem we face in the future.
I am hoping that climate deniers may take the simple words of this article to heart, and begin investigating the scientific studies that depict the significant rise of the climate, from the beginning of the Industrial Age and still continuing...

ann keenan of MI 9:49PM January 26, 2012

How stupid is this piece, in which real scientific and experiential data confirming real on-the-ground impacts of global warming are compared with a baseless prediction of global cooling from the Farmer's Almanac? Is this what passes for serious reporting in US News and World Report? The writer doesn't provide the old plant hardiness map to compare with the new one, nor examples of the types of plants that will now grow where, or the political reason why it has taken 22 years to publish a new map (Bush administration climate change denial kept the map from being created; and what took Obama so long? Laughable lazy work from "journalist" Jason Koebler.

glenn scherer of VT 8:27PM January 26, 2012