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February 12, 2009 11:12 PM
Ocean climate change: a really inconvenient truth
Peter Aldhous, San Francisco bureau chief
The effects of climate change may be even more devastating for marine species than for those on land. That is the message from conservation biologists gathered at the AAAS meeting in Chicago.
I'm familiar with dire predictions about the future of biodiversity in a warming world, having reported on the prospects for terrestrial ecosystems from last year's annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Still, the latest projections for the world's marine fish, revealed at the AAAS by William Cheung of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, gave me pause for thought. Ocean climate change: a really inconvenient truth - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist
Ocean climate change: a really inconvenient truth
Peter Aldhous, San Francisco bureau chief
The effects of climate change may be even more devastating for marine species than for those on land. That is the message from conservation biologists gathered at the AAAS meeting in Chicago.
I'm familiar with dire predictions about the future of biodiversity in a warming world, having reported on the prospects for terrestrial ecosystems from last year's annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Still, the latest projections for the world's marine fish, revealed at the AAAS by William Cheung of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, gave me pause for thought. Ocean climate change: a really inconvenient truth - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist