Written by Michael Walsh on Jul 31, 2020.
Latest Crackpot Claim: Tropical Plants Harmed By Global Warming
This just in:
Further in the all-effects-of-climate-change-are-bad category, we hear that “Tropical plants closer to the equator are most at risk from climate change because it is expected to become too hot for many species to germinate in the next 50 years, UNSW researchers have found.â€
On the face of it, this conclusion is implausible. Global warming should drive species from their current habitats to ones that used to be cooler, away from the Equator toward the poles, in which case cold-weather life forms would hit the wall first (say, those obstinately flourishing polar bears) while things like orchids would be the last to go, migrating from Central America to Wisconsin and ultimately Baffin Island before going off the edge.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/latest-crackpot-claim-tropical-plants-harmed-global-warming/
