Every tenth of a degree of warming matters; extinction risk goes up pretty sharply, with almost 30% of species being lost if we go on a fossil fuel burning binge instead of leaving them in the ground.
From figure 1 in https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4461
News coverage: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/06/nx-s1-5218583/how-many-species-could-go-extinct-from-climate-change-it-depends-on-how-hot-it-gets
From figure 1 in https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4461
News coverage: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/06/nx-s1-5218583/how-many-species-could-go-extinct-from-climate-change-it-depends-on-how-hot-it-gets
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