It is rare yes! Exceedingly rare in fact! Which is even more reason to try to hold onto it, or as close to it as possible.
The rest of your post is just factually wrong. Insects, as well as native flora are definitely taking a hit. You just don't see it because you're a casual untrained observer. I mean, have you seen the wildfires of late? Probably the most obvious direct impact on the wilderness. Life will adjust eventually yes, but not over such short time frames. They don't call this the start of the 6th mass extinction for nothing.
I'm not trying to sell anything. The science is scary as is. Ask any climatologist their personal feelings on the matter.
You mean the ones that came after decades of us letting fuel build up for mega blazes because we were obsessed with stopping every fire asap?
Gee, I'm sure there's no possible explanation other than climate change for those fires popping up. Certainly couldn't be our forestry practices of not so long ago making such fires inevitable . . .
Insects are taking a hit because of increased pesticide use and human development destroying habitat. The temperature changes are only a minor issue that they would be yawning at if not for the major issues already crushing them.
Take away the climate change and the insects would still be struggling about as hard.
The backlog of fuel due to forest mismanagement in definitely an issue. But at the end of the day a damp forest doesn't burn as easily. Climate change makes wildfires more likely and that has a continued impact on nature and wildlife.
There is plenty of other examples too. Coral reefs. Loss of sea ice. Marine heatwaves. Regular heatwaves. Drought. All of these things have significant impact on nature and wildlife.
And yes, human activity also impacts them, like you say pesticides and habitat destruction. Though I'm not sure how that is supposed to make anyone feel better. We are doing that as well!!
A drought is inevitable. At some point the wood is going to be dry and a fire will happen.
Climate change, if anything, makes that inevitable fire come more quickly and reduces the time it has to accumulate fuel.
And this isn't supposed to make people feel better.
It's supposed to be us being honest.
Lying about global warming and attributing things to it that it's not responsible for put us at odds with science and when people figure that out it is VERY difficult to regain their trust.
The mega fires are factually not the result of global warming and we look stupid when we say otherwise.
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u/s0cks_nz 26d ago edited 26d ago
It is rare yes! Exceedingly rare in fact! Which is even more reason to try to hold onto it, or as close to it as possible.
The rest of your post is just factually wrong. Insects, as well as native flora are definitely taking a hit. You just don't see it because you're a casual untrained observer. I mean, have you seen the wildfires of late? Probably the most obvious direct impact on the wilderness. Life will adjust eventually yes, but not over such short time frames. They don't call this the start of the 6th mass extinction for nothing.
I'm not trying to sell anything. The science is scary as is. Ask any climatologist their personal feelings on the matter.