[Libloather]

"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."

Just as long as it isn't cows. I like cows.

[Captain Peter Blood]

What if the AIDS virus mutates and becomes airborne, it will pretty much wipe out humanity. So we don’t need to worry about climate change or anything else.

[headstamp 2]

“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.

[VeniVidiVici]

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?

[Fungi]

Nonsense. The chicken little syndrome refuses to go away.

[dfwgator]

And then again, it may not.

[HighSierra5]

A good start for these watermelons to save the planet is to commit mass suicide. Maybe they should drink some cyanide kool ade.

[Mr. K]

If ONLY we gave the government huge sums of money to spread around, we can be saved!

[Bonemaker]

Will it get rid of rattlesnakes and buckthorn?

[DannyTN]

Eat up!!! Enjoy it while you can!

[Rastus]

It’s better these species die than be subjected to 50 years of Billie Eilish.

[beethovenfan]

May.....or may not!!

[cgbg]

Arizona, we have a problem.

There are dangerous idiots running loose at the university!

[lepton]

By and large, over the past century, overwhelmingly extinctions have been on small islands, and usually related to invasive species - though loss of jungle habitat occasionally has come into play.

[CodeToad]

Well, liberals are a stupid animal. Let’s watch and see if they go first.

[aquila48]

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[Deplorable American1776]

I'm confused, if we are dead within 10 years, why should we care about 1/3 of the animals that will be gone IN 50 YEARS! ?

[aimhigh]

I don’t read any story where the headline includes the words, ‘may’, ‘might’, ‘could’.

[libertylover]

A new study has found that warming temperatures will likely cause hundreds of species to go extinct.

I'd guess that many, many species would thrive as never before if the earth really does warm up very much.

[yesthatjallen]

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%.

Somebody screwed up to the nth degree.

The article has been updated:

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 about 50% of the species had local extinctions if maximum temperatures increased by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius, and 95% if temperatures increase by more than 2.9 degrees Celsius.

[GraceG]