Reminder: The Climate is Broken

Here's the usual "scientists complaining that changing environmental conditions might cause changes in animal populations":

The research team [is] worried for Echinoderms — animals like sea urchins and starfish that Smith says constitute a significant portion of the seafloor life on the Antarctic shelf — which have disappeared from regions inhabited by the crabs, and will likely continue to be wiped out if the crabs continue to colonize new areas of the shelf.

Apparently the ocean is getting warmer and now the giant (and might I say delicious-looking!) crabs are invading previously-too-cold areas and trampling the local flora and gobbling the local fauna. Which I am sure is unfortunate for the locals.
Nevertheless, I repeat the mantra I have preached time and time again: whether anthropogenic climate change is true or natural cyclical climate change is true or cosmic ray-induced climate change is true...the common denominator of all the above is that climate change is happening. So while I lament whenever human introduced invasive species wreak havoc, like giant anacondas taking on gators in Florida or asian carp kamikazes on the Missouri River, the tendency of warm-water crabs to move into new regions that now exist because the water is warming is a little less ignominious.


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