Two stories appeared this week with more bad news on climate
change. First, a review of 866 papers found that animal and
plant species are shifting their ranges northward, while polar
species are dying out. The linked article from the Post included
several paragraphs on the economic implications, in this case
ski resorts and power companies. I imagine that they are not the
only industries facing challenges. "Wild species don't care who
is in the White House," Parmesan said. "It is very obvious they
are desperately trying to move to respond to the changing
climate. Some are succeeding. But for the ones that are already
at the mountaintop or at the poles, there is no place for them
to go. They are the ones that are going extinct." Among the most
affected species, Parmesan said, are highland amphibians in the
tropics. She said more than two-thirds of 110 species of
harlequin frogs, which occupy mountain cloud forests in Central
America, have become extinct in the past 35 years. Meanwhile,
many pest species -- in