If Climate Change Accelerates, Can Plants and Animals Keep Up?
No matter WHAT ELSE 2012 brings, there’s one thing we KNOW will continue in the future: Climate change and the resulting extinction of many animal species.
The ranges of species will have to change dramatically as a result of climate change (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) between now and 2100 because the climate will change more than 100 times faster than the rate at which some species can adapt. Snakes are in trouble but, surprisingly, bees and plants are adapting well.
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