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I mean, this sort of absolute statement is bullshit, summer and winter is extremely rapid and far more dramatic than the few degrees "forecasted" over the next
by ethagknight 3y ago
I mean, this sort of absolute statement is bullshit, summer and winter is extremely rapid and far more dramatic than the few degrees "forecasted" over the next century. Plants and animals adapt every year, some die, many thrive, things change. I am not questioning that humans are making things worse, but "has no mechanism"?? Simply false. Migration is one obvious mechanism. Storing more heat in the ocean is another.
- pjc50 3y ago> Migration is one obvious mechanism. Something humans are famously tolerant of each other doing? No, the other thing. > Storing more heat in the ocean is another. This is also part of the problem; storing CO2 in the ocean has adverse side effects too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
- Scarblac 3y agoBut organisms are adapted to summer and winter cycles, they don't suddenly appear, they have been the same for ages. But change the timing a little, and you have eggs hatching weeks before the caterpillars that the chicks eat appear, and lots of them die. They co-evolved for a fixed time at which spring appeared, now that timing is off and evolution isn't quick enough to move along with climate change.
- ethagknight 3y agoThey have NOT been the same for ages. They have varied wildly with mild and harsh summers and winters. Lots of confidence in thinly observed theories. Caterpillars and chicks having a rough Spring is part of nature.
- Timon3 3y agoBut there have been mild and harsh summers and winters for ages. They don't have to be the same every year for animals to adapt. But if winters suddenly were twice as long and twice as cold, you can bet that the prior adaptions don't suffice anymore. That is what we're talking about.