Climate Change and Adaptation

As the climate is changing many organisms are having to adapt to the changes in order to continue their existence.   Daniel Sarewitz, director of Arizona State University's Consortium for Science says "... the future will be different from the present no matter what, so to not adapt is to consign millions to death and disruption." (Arizona State University)  As the climate gets warmer species have to change to their surroundings.  In order for future generations to survive, parents have to pass these new traits onto their offspring.  The passing down of new DNA in order to survive is called adaption.  If the new traits continue to go through a population and then they become common trait throughout.  Animals, plants, and other organisms that do not adapt to the changing environment will eventually become extinct.  For example, Polar bears evolved from a group of Brown bears, who became isolated from the others and began to evolve and change into what we now know as a the Polar bear.  Not that glaciers are melting and the polar bears food supplies is diminishing due to warmer temperatures, their future is uncertain.  (Derocher)