Poll Results -- Climate Variation

Hey! There's a new [fortnightly!] poll on the right!

For me, increases in weather variation due to climate change will be Fun! I love variation!  21% 15 Annoying! I will have to spend money/change some habits  21% 15 A real problem! My life will fundamentally change.  29% 21 Deadly. My community and I may not make it.  10% 7 Whatever. I don't think that climate change is happening.  11% 8 Not going there! I don't think variation will happen. We'll get warmer, but without greater extremes  8% 6 72 votes total

Those are the answers, work with them. I think we're going to get fundamental change -- even if we live in the developed world -- because of the catastrophic impacts on ecosystems. The impacts in LDCs may also spill over to us ("climate refugees" and/or massive crop failures).

Bottom Line: Evolution is slow, steady and resilient, but it has a hard time coping with steady change -- except if you think that a 50 percent rate of extinction is a "reasonable" cost of change.