{"id":21,"date":"2021-02-17T08:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T08:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/?p=21"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:46:05","slug":"climate-change-speeds-extinctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Speeds Extinctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If increases in greenhouse gases stay on pace, species will go extinct at an ever-increasing rate, according to a study published last week (May 1) in&nbsp;<em>Science<\/em>. In the worst-case scenario, global warming will contribute to wiping out one of every six species.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps most surprising is that extinction risk does not just increase with temperature rise, but accelerates, curving upward as the Earth warms,\u201d Mark Urban, a University of Connecticut ecologist and the author of the study, told Smithsonian.com.<\/p>\n<p>Models have produced widely varying estimates of extinctions to come, so Urban pulled together 131 studies to generate a \u201cglobal mean extinction rate.\u201d His meta-analysis found that, overall, the studies predicted 7.9 percent of species will go extinct due to climate change. That number varied depending on the severity of the warming; limiting the rise in temperatures to 2\u00b0C (35\u00b0F) wipes out 5.2 percent of species, while carrying on with current trajectories and rising 4.3\u00b0C (40\u00b0F) &nbsp;would kill off 16 percent of species.<\/p>\n<p>The meta-analysis is \u201can important line in the sand that tells us we know enough to see climate change as a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystems,\u201d Richard Pearson, a biogeographer at University College London who was not involved in the work, told <em>The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis paper is only about extinction risk, which is the most extreme of the biotic risks of climate change. But that\u2019s also just the tip of the iceberg,\u201d Urban told <em>Vox<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019re also seeing substantial changes in abundances and ranges. So even if we didn\u2019t have a single extinction, we\u2019d be looking at a substantial reorganization of biodiversity around the world. And that will have many effects, some detrimental to other species and human interests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If increases in greenhouse gases stay on pace, species will go extinct at an ever-increasing rate, according to a study published last week (May 1) in&nbsp;Science. In the worst-case scenario, global warming will contribute to wiping out one of every six species. \u201cPerhaps most surprising is that extinction risk does not just increase with temperature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecologicalinfo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}