First came news of the earliest spring cherry blossoms in a thousand years of Japanese temple record keeping.
Now the most sacred institution of Climateball, activists & inactivists accusing each other of temperature record cherry-picking, faces an existential threat.
Word has arrived from Italy of an unsubtle harbinger of the hottest year on record : The largest cherry ever picked:
It's 4.29 centimeters in diameter, and weighs 33.15 grams |