Climate change no longer resides solely in scientific journals. An article in Sunday’s Washington Post illustrates the growing evidence of local impacts felt by nature, cities, and businesses.
The article, “On the Move to Outrun Climate Change” is based on an upcoming report by University of Texas at Austin professor Camille Parmesan. She compares the results of more than 800 peer-reviewed studies on the effect of climate change on nature.
Parmesan is able to relate the following trends caused by human-propelled global warming, among others:
- Butterflies are voting with their wings, abandoning southern Europe and flying north to the more amenable climes of Finland. Species impacted include the Speckled Wood and Orange-tip.
University of Miami professor Harold Wanless warns:
In short, you can run from global warming but you can’t hide from it. You can only prevent it from getting much, much worse by swift action now.
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Hard to believe people are still out there pretending this doesn’t exist.
[...] As we learned in articles anticipating the release of Camille Parmesan’s “Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change,” climate change is happening at a rate so fast that species are unable to adapt and many have, in fact, gone extinct. That includes at least 70 species of tropical frogs. [...]