cherry blossoms. Once again the flowers have come and gone. The culprit: too much warm weather too soon. After the balmiest U.S. winter on record, people will complain about the second earliest Washington cherry blossom peak...Almost no one disputes the fact that a substantial rise in sea level would be a bad thing, inundating first a number of oceanic nations such as the Marshall Islands and Vanuatu in the Pacific, and the moving on to eat up places like Manhattan and the worlds other great coastal cities...The plight of Washingtons cherry blossoms pale by comparison. The National Park Service is making no promises, but barring a catastrophic petal-scattering storm, it appears there will be enough blossoms around on April 9th to avoid total embarrassment at this years parade. ...
