text: Back in early March, we wrote about how this years cherry blossom peak was predicted to occur a bit later than in 2012March 26-30 instead of March 20-23. While recognizing that later peak blooms in a single year dont prove anything either way about global warming, we still raised the question of press reactionor rather the lack of it. Since the early peak dates in the last three years caused quite a bit of climate alarmism, the same should, theoretically, happen when the peak date is overdue.