Sentences with phrase «devastate global ecosystems»

In a study that could show how rapid changes in climate could devastate global ecosystems, a group of British scientists have [continue reading...]

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Heather Birch, a Cardiff University PhD from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences who led the study, said: «The global catastrophe that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also devastated ocean ecosystems.

Where atmospheric CO2 works on a rather abstract, global scale, ocean acidification works on the local one as well, devastating or sometimes completely destroying local ecosystems.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

Ocean acidification could devastate coral reefs and other marine ecosystems even if atmospheric carbon dioxide stabilizes at 450 ppm, a level well below that of many climate change forecasts, report chemical oceanographers Long Cao and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

But what makes it doubly so is its subject: climate change, and especially its devastating impact on global ecosystems.

There is a widespread view that a 4 degrees C future is incompatible with an organised global community, is likely to be beyond «adaptation,» is devastating to the majority of ecosystems, and has a high probability of not being stable (i.e., 4 degrees C would be an interim temperature on the way to a much higher equilibrium level).

He quotes Sir Nicholas Stern's report on the economics of climate change to demonstrate that global warming will devastate species diversity: «Ecosystems will be particularly vulnerable to climate change, with around 15 — 40 per cent of species potentially facing extinction after only 2 °C of warming.»