On 10 April, theAssociated Pressmade the ridiculously false claim that “climate change” is outpacing evolution, putting 1 million species at risk of extinction.
The claim was made to promote their “solution”: Genetic engineering of the natural world.
Conservation genomics, AP said, will help species adapt faster than evolution normally allows. And of course, so AP claimed, reducing emissions and protecting habitats is also necessary.
Anthony Watts explains why AP is talking a load of baloney.
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ByAnthony Watts, as published by Climate Realism on 13 April 2026
TheAssociated Press(“AP”) claims in ‘Climate change is outpacing evolution. Scientists are using DNA to catch up’ that climate change is moving so fast that species cannot adapt quickly enough, forcing scientists to intervene genetically. This is ridiculous and false. The dramatic comparison between evolutionary timescales and modern warming is rhetorically powerful but scientifically shallow, and it ignores how evolution, ecological adaptation and climate variability actually work.
The article opens with the declarative line, “Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster.” That framing sets up the entire scare narrative. It suggests an unprecedented mismatch between biology and climate that will inevitably result in ecosystem collapse.
But the time comparison AP made is completely irrelevant.
Species do not adapt only through slow, geological-scale evolutionary shifts. They respond through migration, phenotypic plasticity, genetic variability already present within populations, hybridisation and ecological reorganisation. The AP article describes a naturally occurring hybrid eelgrass in Mission Bay that “outperformed its parent species” under murkier conditions. That is evolution and adaptation in action, not failure.
Source: SGT Report
