The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald reports that some 'scientists' are worried about the growth, migratory, and breeding patterns of animals and flora.

"If we've had so much change with just one degree, think of how much we will have with 10 degrees," Ms Root said, referring to some projections [in shifts in animal habitats] for next century. "In my opinion, we're sitting at the edge of a mass extinction."

Richard Alley, of Pennsylvania State University, said animals and plants that relied on one another were likely to migrate at different rates. "You'll have to change what you eat, or rely on fewer things to eat, or travel farther to eat, all of which have costs," he said. The result in coming decades, the studies say, could be ecological disruption, local losses of wildlife and extinction of some species.

"Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects... The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality." -- Newsweek, April 28, 1975 on the urging of government leaders to address the problem of Global Cooling.

In the 1970s, it was widely predicted that Global Cooling would shorten the growing cycles and cause widespread famine. Worried about a shortage of fresh water due to ice piling up, there were even plans to try to melt part of the polar ice caps.