![How is the current global warming trend different from previous warming periods in Earth's history?](/sites/default/files/temp_rollercoaster_480.jpg)
Today's global warming is happening at a much faster rate today than it did in the warm periods between ice ages over the last million years.
![Climate & Lobsters](/sites/default/files/MaineLobster_BerntRostad_480.png)
For New Englanders, the saying “as American as apple pie” may as well be “as New England as lobster.” But warming sea surface temperatures from climate change are forcing populations of the American lobster to higher latitudes than ever before—and upending fishing communities on the New England coast.