Posted on 02/16/2020 4:15:08 PM PST by Libloather
In 50 years, Billie Eilish will be turning 69 years old, technology will likely be unrecognizable, and the world may have lost 1/3 of all its plant and animal species. A new study has found that warming temperatures will likely cause hundreds of species to go extinct.
Researchers at the University of Arizona analyzed 538 plant and animal species from around the world, 44% of which already faced local extinctions in at least one area in the world. What they discovered is that the areas that suffered from species extinctions had "larger and faster changes in hottest yearly temperatures than those without."
Last month was the hottest January in the 141 years of climate record-keeping history, and scientists expect that 2020 will "very likely to rank among the five warmest years on record," according to a statistical analysis by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The previous decade was the hottest on record.
Cristian Román-Palacios, one of the researchers, said in a statement that they also estimated how quickly populations can move in an attempt to escape increasing temperatures. They found that species can only tolerate increasing maximum temperatures to a point. If the maximum temperature increased by more than 32.9 degrees Fahrenheit, 50% of the species they analyzed suffered from local extinction. Areas where the temperature increased by more than 37.22 degrees Fahrenheit saw a local extinction rate of 95%.
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So long...farewell....it was nice knowing you.
The world is always in flux. That is normal. It is childish and irrational to think otherwise and mentally ill to think that man can change that.
Absolutely. Gives no meaning to commie plot. Then there is the useful idiots who carry their water.
new meaning. Not no meaning
“may” is the operative word
However, “may” is usually used to indicate something which has a respectable degree of likelihood. It may rain tomorrow, for example.
I may inherit a billion dollars.
I feel better already.
Better start hunting them quick, then@
In 1974 the movie Soylent Green came out. In the movie the oceans are dead. It was set in 2022 so we only have TWO years left!
What if the AIDS virus mutates and becomes airborne, it will pretty much wipe out humanity. So we dont need to worry about climate change or anything else.
The ash cloud would block the sun light and the earth would then cool. Not that it would matter because we would all be dead.
“If we stick to the Paris Agreement to combat climate change, we may lose fewer than two out of every 10 plant and animal species on Earth by 2070.”
LOL. You guys better catch up. The USA has reduced CO2 output more than any industrialized nation without the Honda Accord.
I seem to recall that there was once a ‘year without a Summer’.
We survived it; and I don’t think a little extra CO2 will cause anything close to that; it seems to me it will just create a greater abundance of green stuff for all the critters to eat.
That right there is a big misrepresentation of the facts.
In truth climate record keeping began at the earliest 40 years ago.
The reality of 140 years ago there would have been at most a few hundred weather stations that kept detailed daily data. That data would have been almost strictly surface temperature data.
Ocean temperatures would be rare indeed.
Polar temperatures would be even more rare.
This article is pure fabrication and propaganda.
Sorry Climate Warmist, the truth is that Climate Science is still in its infancy.
Ummm, so would more species be extinct in a WARMING world or a COOLING world?
And how many species went extinct in previous Ice Ages?
Nonsense. The chicken little syndrome refuses to go away.
Thanks only to electing the stupidest man to ever be president, TWICE!
The president who waged war on COAL.
As the president of the country that has the greatest coal reserves in the world that seems extraordinarily stupid.
And then again, it may not.
Just so Trump is still President we’ll be okay.
Just that one guy with his 'Weather Forecasting Stone.'
P.S. If rock SINKS? It's a WITCH! :)
Geologist know we had river beds in the Sahara, North Pole rocks at the equator (pushed by ice), Mediterranean Sea dried up several times, land bridges to the British Isle, Japan and between Asia and North Americans.
I’m not listening to these people until they can explain why these thing occurred.
This is nothing but global redistribution of wealth and control.
A good start for these watermelons to save the planet is to commit mass suicide. Maybe they should drink some cyanide kool ade.
If ONLY we gave the government huge sums of money to spread around, we can be saved!
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