[phantomworker]

...but it raises the possibility that under the right conditions, animal evolution can happen in just decades, not eons.

That, in turn, has major implications for animals adapting to global warming,...

Just read today that homo sapiens are the only species that do not need to evolve to survive in a changing environment, they can adapt their environment to the change. This is kind of scary. Homo sapiens are not doing much to change global warming.

[b_sharp]

"Just read today that homo sapiens are the only species that do not need to evolve to survive in a changing environment, they can adapt their environment to the change. This is kind of scary. Homo sapiens are not doing much to change global warming."

Whether we are a major factor in climate change or not we need to evaluate the affects on other species and determine what costs to them and to us we are willing to accept.

Personally I feel we've reached a limit and need to rethink our methods but see no consensus to do so.

[jwalsh07]

Homo sapiens are not doing much to change global warming.

Not so! Just a couple of days ago there was a thread warning of another little ice age on the horizon. Could that scientist have been wrong?

[Old Professer]

Unless they just like studying these toads in situ why don't they just hire a few Johnny Toad-seeders to scatter them from the front line to the shore and see how they adapt to that?