Now, with regional climates
shifting as a result of global warming, it is unclear just how far — and how fast — organisms will need to travel to keep up with moving climates.
Not exact matches
The research, which got mainstream media attention, projected at what date certain regions would
shift to new climates
as a
result of global warming (ClimateWire, Oct. 10, 2013).
He first thought that the
shift might be a
result of global warming,
as melting polar ice flowed toward the equator.
Scientists have long explained that winter and record cold snaps will not disappear
as a
result of climate change, and that cold spikes may get worse
as a
result of shifting weather patterns under
global warming.
A group
of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK
as a
result of future
global warming and has found that in some regions, the time
of year when we see the heaviest rainfall is set to
shift.
Since that day at Pelican Cays, I have been fortunate to travel to many sites around the globe, ranging from the waters
of the southern Pacific Ocean to the crashing surf along the Pacific coast
of North America, and what I see matches the observations made by what now is an army
of scientists: The Earth's flora and fauna are changing —
shifting their geographic locations, altering when they reproduce or dying wholesale —
as a
result of human - induced
global warming.
But
as this Holland dataset confirms, the actual empirical
global and regional trends
of a climatic
shift of ever more severe weather events do not support the alarmists» predictions; the irrational fears
of more frequent / larger weather disasters
as a
result of CO2 or
global / regional «
warming» is unjustified, per the scientific evidence.
And while the study published in the journal Nature last week did not dispute manmade
global warming, it did predict a cooling from recent average temperatures through 2015,
as a
result of a natural and temporary
shift in ocean currents.