Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Could moving invasive trees into areas northward help us continue to farm them after we devastated their native habitat?
What is going to happen to the native plants we clearcut to make way for the invasive? Move them more north too?
In some cases, it's local plants making a return after the invasive ones got killed by climate change. For example, pine trees getting decimated by a pine borer bug all across Europe. In most of those places, they were planted in the 1950s to produce lumber which in turn was used to rebuild all of those destroyed European cities.
Anything, but stopping the use of fossil energy.
I'm fairly sure the climate changes described in the article are going to happen regardless of whether we cut down emissions in the immediate future.
This proposal doesn't seem like it's to "buy more time", but rather to react to warming that's already happened.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?!
Fucking swallows
I think it may only work partially, for climate change is not simply the world getting hotter, and the geographic conditions may not suffice.