'One in six species extinction' - climate change in action

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ames Dyke writes on The Conversation that “One in six species faces extinction as a result of climate change”.

James Dyke.

The lecturer in Complex Systems Simulation at University of Southampton says the Earth is on course to lose up to one in six of all its species, if carbon emissions continue as they currently are.

“This global extinction risk masks,” he says “very large regional variations. Up to a quarter of South American species may be doomed.”

“We are now detecting species loss due to this climate change and the message from Urban’s and other studies is unambiguous. We must leave most of the Earth’s fossil fuel reserves in the ground if we are to avoid consigning a significant fraction of its species to extinction,” he writes.