The relevant ecology, in short:
* To the extent that a warming (or destabilized) world helps those who want to eat you (or compete with you), you won't thrive. A longer growing season allows more generations of bark beetles; a warmer winter lets more of them survive until spring. The resultant population flush can have nasty consequences for forests.
* To the extent that a warming (or destabilized) world reduces other resources you need when you need them - like, say, water - you won't thrive.
And today's news on that front - "Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009", published (link) in Science(*) - is not reassuring:
"Global plant productivity that once was on the rise with warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline because of regional drought according to a new study of NASA satellite data. "The lesson:
- from the NASA press release, Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth
"Without good science you have only ideology and public relations, and the disasters those lead to."
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For the global climate destabilization firehose, see H.E. Taylor's Another Week of Global Warming News.
Anyone who has a child - and anyone who's not now elderly - has a stake in the future.
And they will be choosing your nursing home...
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