Climate change impacting ‘most’ species on Earth, even down to their genomes — theguardian.com

Three recent studies point to just how broad, bizarre, and potentially devastating climate change is to life on Earth. And we’ve only seen one degree Celsius of warming so far. Climate change is rapidly becoming a crisis that defies hyperbole. For all the sound and fury of climate change denialists, self-deluding politicians and a very bewildered global public, the science behind climate change is rock solid while the impacts – observed on every ecosystem on the planet – are occurring faster in many parts of the world than even the most gloomy scientists predicted. There has been a massive under-reporting of these impacts.We now have evidence that entire ecosystems, some the size of entire states within the USA, are changing. Related: Trump and climate chaos: a letter to my daughter Continue reading...

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