Greg Dick
@greatlakesgreg.bsky.social
Director of the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research & the Great Lakes Center for Freshwaters and Human Health; Professor, University of Michigan Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and School for Environment and Sustainability
Reposted by Greg Dick
Climate change is a 'natural' process now occurring ~10 times faster than the average rate after an ice age. Extinction is 'natural' but is now occurring 1000X faster than in past eras (apart from mass extinctions). Biological invasion is now at rates 100000X prehistoric levels of spp colonisations.
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Climate change is a 'natural' process now occurring ~10 times faster than the average rate after an ice age. Extinction is 'natural' but is now occurring 1000X faster than in past eras (apart from mass extinctions). Biological invasion is now at rates 100000X prehistoric levels of spp colonisations.