NY Times: Trace amounts of CO2 to lead to "a rate of extinction and a loss of genetic diversity surpassing anything the fossil record shows us"

Climate Change and the Exodus of Species - NYTimes.com

Chris Thomas, an author of the study, says, these changes “are equivalent to animals and plants shifting away from the equator at around 20 centimeters per hour” for the past 40 years. This rate will increase as the pace of climate change increases, bringing with it rapid adaptation but also a rate of extinction and a loss of genetic diversity surpassing anything the fossil record shows us.

A rapid reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is tragically unlikely. We are holding the future of every species on this planet — including ourselves — hostage.

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