Global Warming Creating New Climate Zones
Anyone with a sense of the 4.5 billion-year history of climate and geological change on our planet knows that change is the only true global constant. Global warming is re-structuring the world's climate zones, with some estimates that by 2100 polar and mountain climates disappearing altogether and formerly unknown ones emerging in the tropics (keep in mind that the Antarctic was once a tropical life-zone).
When climate zones shift, the animals and plants that live in them will be at greater risk of extinction, said Jack Williams, lead author of a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"What we've shown is these climates disappear, not just regionally, but they're disappearing from the global set of climates, and the species that live in these climates really have nowhere to go as the system changes," according to Williams, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As posted yesterday (see below) acclerating climate change will also lead to dramatic shifts in the behavior of nation states and the human species as a whole. I've listed recent posts on climate change and global warming. Posted by Casey Kazan.
NASA Links Ancient Nile Records to Effect of Sun on Climate Change
I'm so sick of hearing about global warming! Al Gore is totally full of it! (and by "it" I mean those nasty metal worms!) Honestly, there are things worse than global warming ie. those sick little worms that scientists and doctors are shoving up in there. It's freaking March and there is still snow on the ground I say Viva la Global Warming!
Posted by: Juan Tuffgai | March 28, 2007 at 09:33 AM