Most of Canada’s most famous groundhogs predicted sixjmtzywx more weeks of winter, but even that prolongation won’t quite take us to the first actual day of spring.
While Groundhog Day prognostications are based on folklore, the idea of an early spring very much exists in reality.
In the United Kingdom, for example, scientists have discovered that plants are flowering nearly a month earlier than they used to, largely in response to global warming.
As CTV News Science and Technology Specialist Dan Riskin explains in this week’s Riskin Report, that’s bad news for the plants themselves, as well as the animals that rely on them.
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Visitors take pictures as they enjoy the hot and sunny weather with a walk past flowers at Kew gardens in London, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
