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"May 15th and 12* degrees below normal temperature."
maybe where you are.
on the west coast of the US the temps are way above normal.
its already known fact that spring is beginning earlier and fall beginning later.
and the arctic just finished its hottest winter ever:
http://www.barentsobserver.com/hottest-arctic-w...
You cannot include the entire West Coast. Up here in the Northern territories we had 5 inches of snow in Mid-April. Prior to this year, the snow levels were dropping in the Cascades, and last Winter had a very lean ski season (2 weeks all year or so).
Though this has been cooler, the trend is warming. Stark evidence is the destruction caused by bark beetles. The damage can be easily seen as you drive up the Cascade foothills on I-90. Many evergreens are browning from the damage. The timber industry in British Columbia is seeing the worst of it. Hard freezes over several days or weeks usually cures the infestation. No longer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
point was...
city slicker's "May 15th and 12* degrees below normal temperature" claim as some sort of proof of anything is ridiculous since I can point to dozens of places on the map with temps 12 degress higher than normal. thas all.
and next time, for clarification, instead of saying "the west coast" I'll say "the west coast of the western hemisphere from the southern edge of the northern territories to the southern border of peru."