Winter’s unseasonal warmth and clear skies are glorious – but a forbidding sign of danger to come | Paul Daley

After the polar blast of a few weeks back, we have opened our eyes to the luminous full bloom of premature spring

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These unseasonal late-winter days of warmth and clear skies, of the sudden necessity of shorts and T-shirts for the morning dog walk, are at once glorious and somewhat disconcerting.

Spring - the season of renewal, of awakening, of birth and perhaps rebirth - demands to be celebrated. But somehow this year, all of its ridiculously early harbingers feel double-edged for their presaging of the realities of climate change and sea-level rise.

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