Thursday, September 30, 2010
Mammals--Including Us--and Climate Change
Science and chart heavy (and a little bit frightening as it is awesome) this lecture seems to show us that while mammals have, for literally millenia, waxed and waned with the changing tides of the climate (up to even 12 degree changes over many many years allowing for evolution)....here's the thing, the quickness with which climate change is occurring now in tandem with human-made destruction of natural habitats means evolution is fucked, too, and NO MAMMALIAN SPECIES in the history of mammalian species will be able to adapt to the worst case scenario of a six degree rapid temperature increase.
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