[MCN] IUCN: The difference 1 degree Celsius makes

[Lance Olsen]

"Current global climate change agreements aim to limit warming to 1.5 
degrees Celsius," said Wendy Foden, co-author and chair of the IUCN 
Species Survival Commission's Climate Change Specialist Group. "We're 
showing that there are already broad and serious impacts from climate 
change right across biological systems."
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/1c-global-warming-22112016/

Same topic, 2 earlier reports

"Although we are only at an early stage in the projected trends of 
global warming, ecological responses to recent climate change are 
already clearly visible."

Walther et al, Ecological responses to recent climate change. Nature, 
March 28, 2002
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"A surprising result is the high proportion of species responding to 
recent, relatively mild climate change (global average warming of 0.6 
C). The proportion of wild species impacted by climate change was 
estimated at 41% of all species (655 of 1598)."

Camille Parmesan. "Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent 
Climate Change"
Annual Review of Ecology Evolution & Systematics 2006. 37: 637-69

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been made clear in many quarters for almost a decade   ...    we have 
become conscious of   ...    the energy crisis, the full nature of 
which the American public is still only dimly aware   ... The 
individual scientist can survive for a long time  by lying low in the 
valley of specialized intellectual interest   ...   We in science 
must get up and face the wind, confront the future."

William Bevan, "The Sound of the Wind That's Blowing."
American Psychologist. July 1976


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