Pirate's Cove

It’s always some prognostication of doom which is rather open ended with a “if we Do Something this won’t happen”

Climate change could wipe out more than 700 plant and lichen species

All plants and lichens listed under the Endangered Species Act are sensitive to global warming – but there are few plans in place to address the threat directly, say scientists.

Climate change is forecast to have a massive impact on species around the world, especially endangered ones, which are already rare.

A majority of the organisms listed under the Endangered Species Act are plants and lichen.

But researchers found that the risk that climate change poses to endangered plants has not been systematically evaluated in over a decade.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University adapted existing assessment tools used to examine the threat of climate change for wild animals and applied them to 771 listed plant species.

It’s like plants and lichen have never adapted, including the various cool and warm swings during the Holocene.

The team urged that their findings, published in the journal PLOS Climate, should be used to aid in conservation planning for endangered plants and lichens and to inform future recommendations for listing species and planning their recovery.

Looks more like Spreading Awareness than science. And the study itself looks like “hey, let’s find a way to do something and involve ‘climate change'”.