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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 12:19 PM
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Royal Society Article - Warming Promises To Wipe Out Majority Of Earth's Species - Reuters
LONDON - Rising temperatures could wipe out more than half of the earth's species in the next few centuries, according to researchers who published a study on Wednesday linking climate change to past mass extinctions.

Researchers at the University of York said their study was the first to examine the relationship between climate, extinction rates and biodiversity over a long period. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, suggest climate change was the cause of large-scale extinctions, said Peter Mayhew, an ecologist who worked on the study.

The study analysed fossil records and temperature changes over 500 million years, and found that three of the four biggest extinctions -- defined as when more than 50 percent of species disappeared -- occurred during periods of high temperatures.

"The relationship is true for the whole period in general," Mayhew said in a telephone interview. "If temperatures went up, then extinctions went up and biodiversity tended to be lower."

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kenfrequed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 02:28 PM
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1. yup
This is what really scares me.

It makes the global warming ice age thing look pleasant by comparison,
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 02:34 PM
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2. That's quite a few rivets popped.
Edited on Thu Oct-25-07 02:35 PM by tom_paine
Remember The Rivet Popper Theory from ecology class?

What happens when 90% of the rivets fall off an aircraft, I wonder?

:nuke:
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 03:54 PM
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3. This is what I just can't get through those thick skulls out there....
"It's not just that we're experiencing Warming, it's that it's happening too fast for species to adapt."

Then I tell them how difficult it will be to explain to their grandkids what salmon tasted like.
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