The Earth is headed for warmer
conditions than it has experienced in thousands of years,
with potentially catastrophic impacts on areas of high biodiversity
such as Queensland’s unique rainforest. Models predict
that local temperatures will rise about 3.5 degrees centigrade
in the next century, resulting in a nearly 50 percent extinction
rate among endemic species and a dramatic decline in the distribution
of surviving species. A lifting cloud base caused by climate
change, called “cloud stripping,” is already evident
and in other parts of the world has lead to amphibian declines
and birds shifting their ranges higher into the mountains.
From
the EB3 Journal
Jamie's
Daily Log May 10, 2005
Yesterday the project started which meant that my fellow Earthbound
3 members and myself boarded a plane from Melbourne to Cairns.
(Cairns is actually pronounced “Cans”, and Melbourne
is pronounced “Melburn.” Yeah, it’s really
easy to pick out tourists in this country by the way they
pronounce the cities!).
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