Sam Wormley
2015-05-01 02:44:39 UTC
Global Warming Could Threaten 1-in-6 Species
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http://www.climatecentral.org/news/global-warming-means-fewer-species-18952
Cranking up the planetary heat is going to ratchet down the planet’s
biodiversity, and new analysis suggests global warming could directly
threaten 1-in-6 species with extinction if polluting practices
continue unabated — up from about 3 percent today.
Scientists triggered alarm in 2004 when they warned in the journal
Nature that climate change could drive 1 million varieties of plants
and animals to extinction, but that was a rough estimate. In the
decade since, researchers worldwide have been probing the dangers
that could face individual species as climate change causes their
ideal habitats to shift around them.
--Cranking up the planetary heat is going to ratchet down the planet’s
biodiversity, and new analysis suggests global warming could directly
threaten 1-in-6 species with extinction if polluting practices
continue unabated — up from about 3 percent today.
Scientists triggered alarm in 2004 when they warned in the journal
Nature that climate change could drive 1 million varieties of plants
and animals to extinction, but that was a rough estimate. In the
decade since, researchers worldwide have been probing the dangers
that could face individual species as climate change causes their
ideal habitats to shift around them.
sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated to the discussion
of physics, news from the physics community, and physics-related
social issues.