Battle of the Blooming Cherry Trees

In Washington D.C they have bloomed early in March 2012. The Huffington Post has blamed this on global warming.

In Japan, due to a particularly cold winter their famed cherry blossoms will be late bloomers this spring(2012). Is this the climate change canary for global cooling? HuffPo logic would seem to lead to this conclusion.

So, let me get this straight. In different parts of the world in the same year in the same month cherry blossoming is a canary in the coal mine for both global warming and global cooling. And both conditions are supposed be caused by too much human induced CO2 in the atmosphere and nothing else? CO2 is truly a magical gas.

Can we conclude that there was an overabundance of CO2 in Washington and a dearth in Japan? Who arranged for that? Has anyone got the numbers?

CO2 can do to the climate anything, anywhere, anytime.  The perfect explanatory variable: CO2 did it!

Or maybe this is a better explanation.

Real-Science.com has found that the cherry trees in Washington bloomed in October back in 1941.  Here is the 2011 bloom watch. They were early in 1946 as well.

It seems Washingtonians are used to weird cherry blossom behavior.