VOA News: Study Finds Direct Link Between Global Warming and Extinctions

[gulfcoastliberal]

A new study published in a prominent scientific journal has provided the first concrete evidence that global warming is contributing to the extinction of dozens of plant and animal species worldwide.

For over 25 years, scientists have speculated that rising temperatures, worldwide, is hastening the spread of disease and wiping out entire species. And now a study in the journal "Nature", confirms it.

Using data from 70researchers around the world, a team led by American biologist Alan Pounds has discovered that spikes in global temperatures from the last 20 years have coincided exactly with the extinction of several frog species in Central and South America.

"There's a very clear relationship between temperature and the timing of the die-offs," says Mr. Pounds.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-01-13-voa24.cfm

Oh, the irony. VOA reports, Bushco denies!

[Grover_Cleveland]

1. Right wingers don't believe in evolution.

I learned when I was kid that evolution creates evolutionary niches, and new species evolve to fill those niches. So when even a tiny change happens to the climate, certain species aren't able to adapt to the new conditions, and they go extinct.

We are releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which changes the conditions. So that definitley kills off the species that can't adapt to it.

[Oerdin]

2. Of course...

There is also a direct link between global cooling and extinction. There were a lot of species which went extinct when the last ice age first hit. A much better way to describe this would be to say there is a link between climate change and extinctions.