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I think he's tooling with me but a pal suggested #ClimateChange was actually a good thing for #Biodiversity & it's not the first time he said it. I've since discovered this is not an original argument & thereby worthy of a quick debunking 🧵 www.scientificamerican.com/article/clim...

Climate Change Is Becoming a T...
Climate Change Is Becoming a Top Threat to Biodiversity

Warming rivals habitat loss and land degradation as a threat to global wildlife

Scientific American
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Didn't dig into his argument but presume it goes 'warmer climates = more #Biodiversity' which is actually true but missing the word 'naturally' in front of the word 'warmer.' Rapid intense heating is bad & often deadly for animals, plants & living things generally www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how...

How are climate change and bio...
How are climate change and biodiversity loss linked? | Natural History Museum

These problems are closely connected but the good news is, so are the solutions.

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Naturally warmer, stable climates took millions of years to get that way. Significant anthropogenic global heating like we're seeing these days happens over mere decades & this rapid change causes extinctions, not #biodiversity. energyinnovation.org/expert-voice... #ClimateChange

Understanding Biodiversity Los...
Understanding Biodiversity Loss In A Changing Climate • Energy Innovation

Climate change presents a growing threat to biodiversity, which can play an important role in reducing future climate impacts.

Energy Innovation
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#Ecosystems depend on complex interactions amongst many interconnected species. Losing even a few to extinctions leads to destabilization that can jeopardize the whole system. #BioDiversity #ClimateChange #ClimateSky news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/01/15/b...

What is Biodiversity and How D...
What is Biodiversity and How Does Climate Change Affect It?

In general, the more species that live in an area, the healthier that ecosystem is—and the better off we humans are.

State of the Planet
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When your rapid heating wipes out species of plants from an ecosystem what happens to the animals & other lifeforms that depend on them? You guessed it. This disaster cascades right up and down the food chain #BioDiversity #ClimateChange #ClimateSky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects...

Effects of climate change on p...
Effects of climate change on plant biodiversity - Wikipedia

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In the era of #ClimateChange (aka the #Anthropocene, aka RIGHT NOW) the rate of extinctions are somewhere between 1000 & 10,000 times higher than natural extinction rates. This unnatural rapid heating has already failed drastically to lead to more #BioDiversity www.worldwildlife.org/resources/ex...

The sixth mass extinction expl...
The sixth mass extinction explained

Human-driven extinction threatens biodiversity and ecosystems. Discover what’s happening and how we can help reverse the damage.

World Wildlife Fund
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And that, my friends, is that. #Biodiversity #ClimateChange

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Should you run into this argument in your travels please feel free to share this 🧵 in article form. Every day is a good day for advancing the facts, science and data about our rapidly changing planet medium.com/@stevebentle... #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Debunking

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Debunktion Junction: “Climate Change is Actually GOOD for Biodiversity.”

I think he’s tooling with me but a pal suggested Climate Change was actually a good thing for Biodiversity & it’s not the first time he…

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