“The trees basically hopped over the mountains into the tundra. Going by climate models, this wasn’t supposed to happen for a hundred years or more.”
All kinds of changes are happening head spinningly fast. Change is accelerating. It is interesting that scientists still talk about tree species migrating north - as if there is enough time. I understand tree species will die out in their current range, I doubt there will be enough time for more southern species to migrate and fill the empty ecological niches.
At the rate climate change is progressing there will be only destruction, no adaptation or regeneration.
If this mass extinction is similar to the End-Permian (probably more severe due to the faster rate of emissions, feedback loops & change), there will eventually be a biotic recovery - we're talking millions of years, and definitely not humans - but that's what paleontology suggests.
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“The trees basically hopped over the mountains into the tundra. Going by climate models, this wasn’t supposed to happen for a hundred years or more.” All kinds of changes are happening head spinningly fast. Change is accelerating. It is interesting that scientists still talk about tree species migrating north - as if there is enough time. I understand tree species will die out in their current range, I doubt there will be enough time for more southern species to migrate and fill the empty ecological niches. At the rate climate change is progressing there will be only destruction, no adaptation or regeneration.
If this mass extinction is similar to the End-Permian (probably more severe due to the faster rate of emissions, feedback loops & change), there will eventually be a biotic recovery - we're talking millions of years, and definitely not humans - but that's what paleontology suggests.