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Roses are blooming on bushes with just a few pockmarked leaves remaining.
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This is a cucumber vine. Crop yields will surely decrease if we continue to pollute the air with greenhouse gasses.
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These leaves are typical.
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It's therapeutic to find something pretty, and examine it closely, whilst ignoring as best you can the surrounding decay.
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The lily of the valley leaves are scorched.
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As leaves that should be green are yellowing, those that should be purple varieties are turning green instead, like this basil, and potato vine.
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This is the first season that annual plants have such pronounced symptoms of chlorosis and obviously, for them, it isn't a cumulative effect from years of drought or acid rain or gradual temperature rise. It's not a fungus or a bug or a disease that is affecting every single species that produces chlorophyll, all at once, at the same time!
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The silky dogwood leaves are all this shriveled, and honestly I don't remember what a fading cone flower should look like but surely not so hideous?
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http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/
This is a fascinating and beautiful site to wander around, and then through your tears, google "albedo effect".
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