Conservationists warn that spring is coming earlier and that plant and animal life is not evolving quickly enough to adapt to climate change.
For the most part, our temperatures in North Dakota are far more extreme than those in the UK. When we have a warm year, everything adapts just fine. Critters born in spring are more likely to be alive in the fall, and have had plenty to eat before winter and are more likely to survive the normal subzero cold.
It is cold that kills, more than heat, here. As a rule, more humans die from cold than heat, too.
Now that's just weather, and it runs in cycles. It doesn't mean a long term drought or an ice age.