Climate Change Weather System and Looming Rewrite of Our World

Our current understanding of how our world works how the weather is predicted, plants are pollinated, fish spawn, species migrate, etc., will have to be rethought as climate change creates new climatic zones, new coastlines, and new ecosystems. Scientific knowledge of our natural world may have to be rewritten sending us backward at the very moment when we desperately need this knowledge to address the rapid onset of change.

It took us decades to study these patterns and understand their interrelationships and to some degree, we are still trying to understand the interrelationships. A good example of this struggle was stabilizing the Western states during the dust storms of the 30's. Although this disaster was brought on my a dry period the underlying reasons had to do with inappropriate  farming technics and poor water management methods. A great deal of learning has gone into stabilizing this geographical area. If climate change changes multiple ecological systems all at once it will be impossible to ensure we do not create new manmade disasters like the dust storms of the 30's, and with perhaps greater frequency.

Dust Storm

Aside from the disruption in our agricultural process, which will put into jeopardy our ability to feed the ever increasing population of the planet as our richest agricultural lands is being reclaimed by the sea. There will be changes in the patterns of insects which could trigger things like locust plagues, a disruption in the predator food chain, a breakdown in spawning patterns, and a disruption of the weather cycles that create snow packs that fill our rivers.

Bleached Coral Reefs

In our oceans climate change is already destroying coral reefs which support a quarter of our marine life. The abnormally high temperatures in some areas have extended algae blooms well beyond their normal boundaries, poisoning increasingly larger amounts of marine life and marine mammals.
With such enormous changes, our understanding of how things work will have to be rewritten, and this will require decades to do. With the acceleration of change around us, we will likely know less and less about how to manage these changes. As the world around is rewritten we will be rewriting a great deal of our knowledge of how earth's systems work.