Categories: Environment

Top 10 Myths About Climate Change

© Shutterstock

Myth #9. Animals will adapt to climate change

While it’s true that animals and plants have adapted in the past to climate change, some of them will manage to adapt again, but not entirely. Because in reality, plants, animals, and birds have two options in order to survive: move or adapt to the new conditions.

How Will COVID-19 Impact the Environment? More info HERE!

While certain species have already adapted, for some it might be impossible, given the speed of climate change and the habitats being destroyed by roads, cities, and civilization. Animals and plants that can’t adapt will likely go extinct in the future.

Related Post

While they have adapted in the past to climate change, this time they’ll have to adapt to pollution, habitat fragmentation, and many other environmental stressors, which makes is so much different and difficult as well.

Additionally, “the extinction rate of species is much higher than the natural extinction rate.”

Read also: New Record Set for The Arctic Circle-100 Degrees Fahrenheit.

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

View Comments

  • The earth had to overcome birth, 4.5 billion yrs ago. If it can overcome that challenging epic of birth why not puny mans contributions? One volcanoes eruption introduces more pollution than mans effort of yrs. does.
    Norm Flagg

  • JOINED USA NAVY IN 1964 TO AVOID THE ARMY DRAFT.
    I ATTENDED ELECTRICIAN SCHOOL AND WENT TO AN
    AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN SAN DIEGO. WE MADE 2 TRIPS TO
    VIET NAM. OUR SHIP HAD 3,500 MEN ABORD; I WAS PROMOTED
    TO E-4 ELECTRICIANS MATE. I DO NOT REGRET ANY DECIONS
    THAT I MADE IN MY LIFE. MY WIFE AND I ARE MARRIED 50
    YEARS NOW. PRAISE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. I AM SURE
    THAT EVERYONE AGREES…AMEN.

  • It is 100% political. Who wrote this silly article? Humans have NO CONTROL of the planet. It controls us. What is the #1 cause of temperatures going up? Volcanoes. Long before humans lived volcanoes controlled the planet. Present: warm. Absent: cold.

    • Don't confuse the anti-oil, anti-Western Civilization zealots. They want us all to be Third World Countries.

  • Actually volcanoes cool the earth. The ashes block the sun. 1992 was “the year without a summer” because of weakened sunlight from Mount Pinatubo erupting.

    • John, just a small fact about Pinatubo. First, I saw the eruption in person. Second, and most important, the eruption of Pinatubo did more damage the earths attmosphere than all of human existance on this planet and it fixes itself. If the tree hugging community were to be unable to strike fear in public at large, then they'd lose all funding. Always follow the money.
      Regards
      John

  • Well I'm old enough to remember global cooling. We were going to become an ice ball. What happened? I was willing to listen to your opinion, however it became clear that this poorly written article or it was not edited thoroughly was not going to shed any light on the theory of GW. Which alway lessens my interest in following the story. Here are just a few examples of what I mean.
    "making it much less cheap" that's my favorite
    "This is the biggest crisis we ever have to say, and sadly it's man-made."
    "now how to survive"
    There are many other little things that make this hard to take seriously.
    I'm just a simple old man. I'm not a writer, but I've always noticed these little things that annoyed me. But I'm willing to do my part so here's a helpful solution for two problems. To help with water problems in the western part of the country crank up the desalinization plant on the California coast. Also bring in the desalinization ships that the US Navy has and pump that water into the the farmlands, lakes and reservoirs. I know they don't have big hoses, and it's not like filling a pool. However I'm sure the US Army Corps of Engineers "Essayons" (let us try) can find a way to transport the fresh water to the right location. This, I'm sure you already realized, will take a massive amount of water from the ocean which may help with global sea rise.

  • The Earth's climate is cyclic. Early on, the Earth was mostly molten rock but that was before the Ice Age. Florida used to be under water with sharks roaming the "state." Dinosaurs used to walk the planet when most of it was covered with snow and ice -- wooly mammoth remains are found all over. I believe man DOES have an impact but, compared to Nature's way of changing the environment, that impact is minimal. As far as solutions, where do the tree-huggers think that electrical current comes from to charge these super-new vehicles that make batteries a newcomer to the trash dumps. If they want everyone to go back to simpler times, let the explain why we all use plastic bags; another of the tree-huggers desires! The problem is that the Earth's population is booming so fast that no natural resource is going to last long -- and that all results in climate changes in the long run.

Recent Posts

10 Reasons Why Extra Terrestrials Would Never Invade Earth

One of the most commonly used subjects in science fiction is that of an extra terrestrials invasion. Hundreds of variations…

The Delta Variant Symptoms You’re Probably Going To Get First

There have been almost 2 years since the pandemic started, because of the Covid virus. At the beginning of this…

6 Most Unexplored Places On The Planet

We conquered the moon, we sent space probes outside our solar system, explorers dived deep into the depths of the…

6 Countries Likely To Survive A Climate Change Collapse

Climate change is a real problem that has to be addressed as soon as possible, before we hit the point…

Everyday Items That Started Life In The Military

Usually new items appear out of necessity, so it’s not surprising that the military is the best when it comes…

10 Favorite Foods You Had No Idea Were Actually Inflammable

Not that we would be any Guy Fieri in the kitchen or something, but we could still enjoy the occasional…