Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Spoiler alert: “It’s like flowers on steroids" is not referring to the areas that were heated. This is not encouraging news. But then, it shows how the #ClimateCrisis will change valued ecosystems.

‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/flowers-heated-2c-meadow-climate-crisis-experiment-rocky-mountains-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#biodiversity #instability #Habitat #EcosystemChanges #Climate

‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems

The Guardian
Mar 25 at 4:09pmWeb
Show threadquixote21h ago
@PaulWermer _Very_ miseading subtitle! Zero to do with the point of the article, really. Excellent and interesting article. Depressing, of course....