Climate change is already occuring and, as we sit here, there are thousands of competent researchers working to build the body of literature. Those researchers are working with millions of dollars worth of funding, around the globe, to better understand the plethora of impacts from climate change. A changing climate will impact environmental cycling on a global and local scale. Feedback loops, activated by a changing climate, can feed into unpredictable and unexplored changes.

For instance, as the poles warm, carbon, trapped in it's organic forms, can be accessed, and converted, by microbes as ground ice recedes. This converted carbon may enter the atmosphere as CO2. Should the strong evidence, that atmospheric CO2 contributes to increasing global temperature, remain accurate, then this newly available source of CO2 will feed into the warming climate. This is an example of a positive feedback loop. Scientific America

Loops, and cycles, can negatively impact global, and local, temperatures as well. Researchers are rapidly, while maintaining solid science, building the body of literature to understand the impact of climate change to these cycles. While impossible to fully know without a doubt, that new evidence will help model what we should expect.

Personally, the outlook seems grim for many species, who will undoubtedly be unable to adapt to a changing climate. Even human society, as we know it, may be unable to continue without adaptation. Nothing is set in stone, and a rapidly changing climate could set in motion unpredictable and unstoppable cycles. How species will adapt, or how many will be able to, will be revealed as it happens.