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23-JAN-2005 İAlexander Dudley 2005

Northern Snow skink, Niveoscincus greenii

Mount Campbell, Tasmania

When people think about climate change, we are usually primarily concerned (and we should be concerned) about the impact on
humanity, which will be huge. But because certain politicians want to protect certain friends in the resource extraction business,
climate change is going to happen. And its consequences will be more bad than good. This lizard is one species that will almost
certainly slip to extinction with only a one degree change in average temperatures. Northern snow skinks are confined to the tops
of mountain ranges, islands of habitat surrounded by a sea of competition. All species evolve as part of a community and the
alpine boulderfields where these lizards occur is a community directly threatened by global warming. Go on.. Ride a bike.


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