New research
suggests that over millions of years of planetary history, birds and mammals have outperformed amphibians and reptiles at adapting to
changing temperatures and shifting their habitats to more
suitable locations.
While the above analysis yields good results for by tying past climate
change to increases in human CO2 emissions, it should be cautioned that the
suggested exponential time relation is not
suitable for projecting the future over longer time periods, because of possible
changes in human population growth rates and absolute limitations on carbon available in remaining fossil fuels.