Cambridge 2000: Trinity College: The Backs

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Trinity College: The Backs: snowdrops

Cambridge, England: Trinity College: The Backs: snowdrops
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Date photograph taken: 01 January 2000

Snowdrops (Galanthus) are some of the first spring bulbs to open. This is a picture of some snowdrops that have already flowered on 1 January. This is fairly early to see such flowers, but this particular clump is located in a sheltered south-facing area of the Trinity Backs.

There is much worry about so-called global warming, and one might take early flowering of spring bulbs as evidence of such warming. However in the recent past there have been equally strong worries about the next ice age. Scientific models of the atmosphere of the Earth, as for most complex dynamical systems, are woefully simplistic, but the output from these models is taken to be scientific fact. There is no doubt that the human species impacts the environment, but simplistic analyses could actually make the situation worse.

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