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In his new book Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming, Anthony Barnosky shows how many plants and animals are suddenly being confronted with a world for which they’re unprepared. He ties together the fossils, animals, plants, and environment to illustrate how climate change is already altering our world and its creatures. Some new species may be born. Some will adapt. But many will be pushed towards extinction.

Barnosky’s alarming evidence shows that drastic changes can result from even small global temperature increases. He explains the importance of biodiversity, connects evolutionary change with global temperatures, and draws a connection between human population growth and the deterioration of other species.

Heatstroke begins where other books on global warming leave off, recounting Earth’s past mass extinctions in order to put today’s crisis into perspective. This is not the first time climate change has taken place on Earth, but this time it’s different: the planet is now warming at an unprecedented rate, and humanity is driving it.

Anthony Barnosky will be conducting an online chat at www.islandpress.org, on Thursday, April 16th at 7 pm.