Sentences like these really bring the point home for me that global warming is coming and humanity is not prepared for it. All the effects of climate change are

Sentences like these really bring the point home for me that global warming is coming and humanity is not prepared for it. All the effects of climate change are going to destroy many of the worlds food supplies resulting in famines etc long before the actual sea level rises. “Another key concern,” Crimmins wrote, “is that very early flowering can lead to mismatches in the presence of the open flowers and the presence of the pollinators dependent upon the flowers as a food source. Bees are a key pollinator for cherry trees, and if bees were not active at the time of the very early cherry flowering this past spring in Japan, the trees may have had poor pollination. In addition, those bees may be going hungry without the cherry flowers as a food resource when they do become active.”