i know that up to 52% of the species on the planet is going to go extinct because of global warming.?

Question

i know that up to 52% of the species on the planet is going to go extinct because of global warming, how else is Climate change going to affect the world's biodiversity? What is the decrease in biodiversity going to leads to?

Answer 1

For the guys who don't believe his statistic. here is the proof, "One recent global study estimated that up to 37% of species could be committed to extinction by 2050 as a consequence of climate change". - http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/sowb/pressure/48.html.,

To get back to the question, Climate change is going to kill the biodiversity of the world. If couple of species go extinct in a specific level of the food web, it affects the whole food web in a certain area. that doesn't mean that it is going to wipe out all the species in that regions' food web, it just increases their likelyness of going extinct, and most likely they would go extinct in the following years.
Decrease in biodiversity is really going to mess up the planet. Mother nature will have to establish everything all over again. It is just sad that selfish humans don't understand just how cool biodiversity is.

Answer 2

Biodiversity keeps nature balanced, All nature is interwoven and balanced. This is going to affect the human population if ecosystems collapse, they will not be able to support a variety of life, some of which is neccessary to support human populations.

I presume you don't understand this because you are not in contact with your sources of food. Also it is not important to us at the moment because most of our food production is from monoculture and has little dependancy on other flora and fauna.

An ecosystem out of balance is more prone to outbreaks of pestilance and desertification as the natural checks and balances, something to keep those humans in check?

Did you hear about the bees dying off? That is a demonstration of what a lack of biodiversity will do in an ecosystem. Less fruit became polinated and shortages went all the way up the food chain.

Should the human race ever get back into balance with nature, a lack of biodiversity will also reduce the number of possible species that will help to repopulate and rebalance a post oil world.
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Answer 3

a greater threat to Biodiversity is probably deforestation. I think that if we lost 52% of our species due to global warming then that means that it got bad enough probably wipe out everything (lets hope it doesn't) It is estimated (couldn't find the book that i read it in but i did cite a source that is an article about deforestation) that we lose alomost 1000 species in tropical rainforests each year that we have never even discovered before. When you think about this it is scary. But humans definently arn't helping our cause while we sit and do nothing about global warming.

Answer 4

In some rain wooded area habitats, there are a great form of species. i think of many animals sort separate species each and all the time. Species pass extinct needless to say. Any warming or any replace in temperature or climate will replace the ecosystem and relatively good species could pass extinct. different species will thrive. this is the innovations-set of organic determination. Are human beings increasing the fee? almost relatively. Is the concern being exaggerated? very plenty so. it relatively is relatively ripe with hypothesis.

Answer 5

How can you know that? You can't. Nobody can. Anybody who says the know that is not being completely honest.

I think more than 52% of the species will go extinct even WITHOUT global warming. It will be due to habitat destruction as humans occupy and use more and more of the planet for farms and cities and so on.

Answer 6

It is true the earth goes through changes naturally but humans have worsened it and anyone who denies this has blinders on. And if people are using global warming as a scare tactic, so be it. Something better scare people into giving our one and only planet some respect.

I don't know if 52% of critters will die off, are you talking about plant life too? It is true new species are being discovered everyday so maybe our earth has a plan, similar things has happened in the past.

Answer 7

Please reference the 52% number, I would like to read it.

When dinosaurs roamed the earth, the earth temperature was about 22C. (WAY hotter than predicted for 2100) This was a time of immense biodiversity and huge biomass. This was not a major extinction event. Couple CO2 (airborne plant food) with warmer temperatures (accelerates life processes in general) and you get unrestrained growth and diversity, not extinction.

I don't know how 'Ur Question' can know that 1,000 species die each year when we didn't know they existed. Think about it. We never knew that they lived, but somehow we do know that they died???

Answer 8

How do you know this? Why 52%? How did you get this number?

Have you read the news? More species are being discovered each week. Not just small stuff either. New species of fish, sharks, mamals, birds, flowers are seen for the first time, not including recient sightings of species thought to be extinct.

Warming is good for life. Any time the climate warms, new species appear. This is why co2 lags temps by 800 years.

Answer 9

You know this? Exactly how did you come into this knowledge? The truth is this is only an estimate and is based on a number of assumptions. Change the assumptions and the estimate will change, so there is no way to "know" how many species will become extinct.

Answer 10

It won't. Global warming is just something invented to scare us. The Earth goes through climate cycles just like these every 1000 years or so.