Editor:
Lynn Chapman and John Turnbull in their letter (Coast Reporter, Sept. 4) make the statement: “We all know that pressures on biodiversity will only increase with climate change.”
This statement is only correct as far as it refers to existing biodiversity, which may be expected to decline. Overall biodiversity will actually increase as the more southerly ecozone heading our way is more diverse than our existing one. The changes will be largely imperceptible, but perhaps the recent arrival of the house wren as a breeding bird species on the Sunshine Coast is indicative of the warmer and drier summers predicted in climate change models.
Tony Greenfield, Sechelt
