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Climate Change Can Grind Down Plate Tectonics: Discovery News

Oct. 15, 2008 -- Earth's changing climate has a spectacular ability to reface the planet. Shifting winds and ocean currents can turn rainforests to deserts and back again, while ice ages have covered whole continents in glaciers again and again through time.

Now, new evidence has emerged that, given enough time, climate change can even alter the course of plate tectonics.

Global warming could wipe out roos [but aren't alarmists suggesting that we eat large numbers of them?]

A new study published in the December issue of the University of Chicago’s Physiological and Biochemical Zoology finds that an increase in average temperature of only two degrees Celsius could have a devastating effect on populations of Australia’s iconic kangaroos.