Nature runs riot after Europe's warmest winter

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PARIS -- Wheat harvested a month early, markets bursting with prematurely ripened produce, animals migrating too soon or not at all -- Europe's warmest winter on record has made nature run amok, experts across the continent have reported.

With average temperatures in the three winter months of December through February more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above average in most European countries, the environment's biological clock has been thrown off kilter, they say.

A United Nations study last month said human activity was almost certain to blame for global warming and warned that the Earth's average surface temperature could rise between 1.1 and 6.4 degrees by 2100.

This year has been the warmest winter alright. Places where used to be very cold during winter time, this time had been unusually warm.

Maybe one thing to consider is the current presence of El Nino. Then take a look at UN's studies conclusion. "Human activity was almost certain to blame for global warming"