You can say what you want about the San Francisco Chronicle and its propensity for lurid, full color ledes, and I often do. Sometimes however the splash is about something truly world shaking. No other paper I have seen recently has featured global warming stories with top-of-the-fold, eye-catching coverage, or given their environmental writer such billing. Be sure to read today’s article
SPRING GETS OUT OF SYNC

The shift in seasons around the world is of enormous concern as climate change takes hold. Over the millenium evolution has pressured adaptation of larve, butterfly, food source, temperature and scarcity of predators to each other. Now, as food source ripens and dies before the larvae needs the food, and so dies without maturing, the fine complex web of being is threatened with unravelling.

Evolution of course will eventually deal with it. The species, or sub-species with the ability to adapt will survive and those without, will not. Adaptation, however, doesn’t respect human time frames, and may not be pretty if great die-offs precede emergence of new species — with totally unpredictable characteristics, it might be said. You think you’ve seen “shock and awe?” Once upon a time there were no mammals. What now non existent class of beings might appear in a new world order?