Thread by @ClimateBen

By the 2030s, Earth will have warmed ~2°C in the space of just 250 years.

It would appear that there is no record of ecosystems or species in the geologic past surviving this rate of change.

news.stanford.edu/news/2013/augu…

'most land animals will not be able to evolve quickly enough to adapt to the dramatically warmer climate expected by 2100. Many species face extinction, as a result.' theguardian.com/environment/20…

And ocean-dwelling species are disappearing from their habitats at twice the rate of those on land due to rapid climate change.

nationalgeographic.com/environment/20…

Extinctions set to become much more prevalent as global warming increases further by roughly 2-fold to 5-fold in coming decades:

'local extinctions related to climate change are already widespread, even though levels of climate change so far are modest...'journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Given local extinctions, the rapid rate of warming, and a whole range of other human activity related factors (political/economic), especially in relation to forests, I tend to agree that it is 'hard to think that there will not be many global extinctions'.news.mongabay.com/2017/03/climat…

Disturbing trend: mainland species are starting to go extinct.

"There is a growing wave of extinctions sweeping across the continents, driven mainly by habitat loss and degradation from unsustainable agriculture and logging".

Add rapid warming: calamity.eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nat…