Post from Environmental Thoughts - Rochester, NY

  As I write it’s seven in the morning on February 1, 2012 and fifty degrees outside. Yesterday, it was well into the fifties and sunshine. It’s not an anomaly; it’s been warm most of January, warm in the sense that insects were buzzing about at times. How many other plants and animals have been fooled into thinking spring has come I cannot say. But we can say we haven’t got much snow: “So far this season, we've ha ...