15 July, 2013

A warming climate looks and sounds good, but is a harbinger of death


Those who welcome our warming climate arguing they enjoy the warmer weather are either ignorant or sadly grossly misinformed.

All earth’s species, including humans, have adapted to live in what exists.

The Snow Leopard is one species
threatened by climate change.
Change the climate too quickly and many of earth’s species, including most humans, will die.

The speed of evolution among species varies, but even those which change the quickest are locked in a life and death struggle with a shifting environmental landscape arising from human-induced climate change.

The Guardian reports, in a story headed: “Climate change is happening too quickly for speciesto adapt”, that the speed of evolutionary change is far outstripped by the rate of global warming, meaning many species will face extinction.

“Past transformations that saw planetary temperatures soar took millions of years to occur,” The Guardian said.

“The one we are creating will only take a few generations to take place. Either evolution speeds up 10,000-fold, which is an unlikely occurrence, of there will be widespread extinctions,” the newspaper reported

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