[cogitator]

Link to the Nature article:

Ecological responses to recent climate change

Abstract: There is now ample evidence of the ecological impacts of recent climate change, from polar terrestrial to tropical marine environments. The responses of both flora and fauna span an array of ecosystems and organizational hierarchies, from the species to the community levels. Despite continued uncertainty as to community and ecosystem trajectories under global change, our review exposes a coherent pattern of ecological change across systems. Although we are only at an early stage in the projected trends of global warming, ecological responses to recent climate change are already clearly visible.

(It's got 97 references. Holy cow.)

[Right Wing Professor]

Change isn't anything new. Climate is forever changing. Warbler ranges in the US were moving northward long before any possible 'global warming' - they were probably still recovering from the little ice age. Species adapt quite handily; it really isn't hard for even a land animal to move north at a rate of a few miles a year, and for a bird it's trivial.

How odd that the left' is wedded to the idea of an unchanging earth, while we conservatives don't have a problem with the idea that climate and ecosystems are constantly in flux.