Climate Change is Happening Too Quickly for Species to Adapt

Species that live on mountains, such as the snow leopard, are particularly at risk. Photograph: Tom Brakefield/Getty Images

guardian.co.uk - by Robin McKie - July 13, 2013

Among the many strange mantras repeated by climate change deniers is the claim that even in an overheated, climate-altered planet, animals and plants will still survive by adapting to global warming. . .

. . . However, their rate of change turns out to be painfully slow, according to a study by Professor John Wiens of the University of Arizona. . . The results, published online in the journal Ecology Letters, show that most land animals will not be able to evolve quickly enough to adapt to the dramatically warmer climate expected by 2100.

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Ecology Letters - Rates of projected climate change dramatically exceed past rates of climatic niche evolution among vertebrate species
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12144/abstract;jsessionid=6069812F3AEE8F8B0D093559CEE73BA6.d01t01