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Agencies' report warns of faster climate change.

Opponents, who have been protesting and signing petitions for a few years now, worry that more coal trains could ultimately lead to problems ranging from local traffic delays and health harms due to air pollution, to faster climate change as a result of more coal-burning overseas.

As such, slightly faster climate change may induce evolutionary rescue (Clobert et al. 2001) for species experiencing locally fragmented habitat (Fischer and Lindenmayer 2007).

While it can be expected that gaps are more readily crossed when climate change proceeds slowly because of an increased time window of opportunity and larger population sizes, we provide evidence of the opposite; somewhat counter intuitively, we show that slightly faster climate change can facilitate spread across fragmented landscapes because of evolution of increased dispersal distances.

However, at high dispersal distances (δ* > 6), this relationship does not hold; indeed higher δ* does not allow persistence in scenarios of faster climate changes and perhaps counter intuitively, the maximum rate of climate change that a species with very high δ* can tolerate may be lower than that which a species with lower δ* can tolerate (Fig. 1A).

If they become carbon emitters rather than carbon sinks as temperatures rise, projections of how fast climate change will occur may have to be adjusted.

Our results demonstrate that the rate of climate change is positively correlated to the evolved dispersal distances although too fast climate change causes the population to crash.

We show that fast climate change can induce selection for wider dispersal kernels, as such ensuring population persistence and even evolutionary rescue in case of range shifting in fragmented areas.

A fast climate change is expected to be worse than a slow one because it reduces the time available for species to adapt to the new environment or to shift their range to cooler regions (Visser 2008).

Similar rescue mechanisms may be equally more relevant for species living in biomes characterized by fast climate change like savannah compared to biomes that are subjected to relative slow climate change like tropical coniferous forest (Loarie et al. 2009), at least if range expansion and evolution do occur in more continuous suitable landscape.

"In fact," Mr. McCloy said, "it's probably improving faster than climate change is happening".