PrintLots of Other Issues
Climate affects almost everything somehow, so a great number of other issues can be raised, from huge to tiny. Vines seem to like carbon dioxide, for example, so poison ivy is expected to grow well, and vines may out-compete large trees in tropical rain forests.
More broadly, almost all ecosystems will be perturbed, often in major ways. Rare and endangered species may have difficulty migrating, especially if they are persisting in a park or preserve surrounded by human-controlled landscapes, or if they are migrating up a mountain and eventually having nowhere further to climb. Acidification of the oceans, and loss of oxygen with warming, will affect marine species and those of us who eat them. Loss of wintertime cold doesn’t mean that everyone in the high latitudes is about to get malaria, but one line of defense will go away. Changes in hurricane frequency are still highly uncertain, but the strongest storms seem likely to get stronger, and so much of the damage is done by the strongest storms. Cooling towers for power plants expect enough, and cold enough, water, and may experience troubles. And on, and on.