Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Although the Earth hasn't warmed for over 10 years, it's still warming too fast for California plants?

Native California plants in peril because of changing climate - San Jose Mercury News
Many of the state's endemic species have survived climate fluctuations over thousands of years, but they've never seen change as fast as climate models predict is coming.
"The speed of climate change is really the main issue," said UC Berkeley ecologist David Ackerly, an author of the study that appears in the journal Public Library of Science-ONE.

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