This week I have heard that it is the warmest week of the planet in history. This indicates that we are definitely not doing enough to stop global warming or maybe we are really trying but maybe its too late! At any rate things look bad.
A different measurement that may indicate how the world is going and how we may have to adapt to live differently in different parts of the world is the migration of species due to global warming.
In previous years non native species generally arrived in countries due to human intervention and in fact almost half of the plant species in the UK are non native now due to the importing of plants from all over the world. Similarly in the animal world we have signal crayfish, red squirrels etc. that were brought here by humans.
Now we are starting to find that non native species are being driven to other parts of the world due to climate change including Great White Sharks moving north possibly looking for food that has itself migrated further north.
There are also of course species that travel the world every year to enjoy appropriate weather conditions, i.e. Swallows, Orca's, Moths etc. How will this change as the world warms up, will they stay in locations longer or maybe not migrate at all any more?