Researchers believe that many of the incidents of ecological change that have been popularly attributed to the weather can actually be viewed as one-off aberrations that will not cause long-term genetic change. But looking back at the history of our planet, several warming events have caused mass extinctions.
氣候改造生態事件接踵而至，雖然學界認為大部分只是個案，尚不至於造成生物長期遺傳的演變，但回顧地質史上的幾度暖化，每一回都淘汰掉無數物種，造成生物大滅絕。