> We know that the planet is warming and are told to expect wider swings than we have seen in the last several centuries.

What is lacking in present day narratives is the understanding that Earth's climate has varied widely over the past several millennia with short term and longer term changes of various degrees and rates of onset.  

It has been warmer than today during Roman times and colder during the Dark Ages.  There were farms on Greenland in the common era.

Earth and its inhabitants have even experienced the "Year without Summer" and a "Little Ice Age" in only the last 1,000 years.

"https://www.google.com/search?q=Year+without+Summer"

"https://www.google.com/search?q=little+ice+age"

All this history is conveniently ignored as a it is iupsetting to consider these possibilities.  Imagine a year without summer! . Most of us would rather not. 

We like to think that the present climate is ideal and any changes would be catastrophic, but bees and humans have survived and adapted to some very significant and sometimes sudden swings.

Through all this the bees have thrived and even flourished. Honey bees even survived the ice ages, although some local populations in specific regions undoubtedly died out.

It is a fascinating topic and not one for BEE-L, but it seems that sometimes the changes are almost instant.

https://www.google.com/search?q=freeze+dried+mastodon

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