Listening to butterflies

David Ignatius of the Washington Post wrote an insightful editorial about global warming, and mentions a series of New Yorker articles by Elizabeth Kolbert regarding the shrinking of Artic ice, thawing of permafrost, changing rainfall patterns, and butterflies who move into new habitats as the planet grows warmer. Read this piece to get a taste of the issues, and then consider tracking down the Kolbert articles (Spring 2005). Let's start listening...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/17/AR2006011700895.html