Global Warming Affects Species

Skimmed the United Nation's 26 page report (click on "Read the Report" at the link) on "Climate Change 2007 ", after reading the news reports from it, because what I saw missing from those reports was any reference to what impact there would be expected due to loss of species (or due to species, especially the plants, inability to migrate in step with "rapid" climate change).

The full report is titled "Climate Change 2007 - the Physical Science Basis". As a result it deals only with that. One can glean some predictions about more severe weather events and specific changes in ice masses, for example. But there is nothing here in the way of predicting the impact on plant or animal species, and very little on predicting the impact on our own species (as we, perhaps, must deal with a shift in agricultural patterns, for instance).

This report mainly says global warming is happening, probably due to human impact. It will take another U.N. report to tell us what we might expect that to do to those of us (people, Polar bears and plants) required to live together in Earth's changing climate.