“If warming were held to a minimum, the team estimated that between 22 and 31 percent of the species would be “committed to extinction” by 2050. If warming were to reach what was at that point considered a likely maximum – a figure that now looks too low – by the middle of this century, between 38 and 52 percent of the species would be fated to disappear.”

“If warming were held to a minimum, the team estimated that between 22 and 31 percent of the species would be “committed to extinction” by 2050. If warming were to reach what was at that point considered a likely maximum – a figure that now looks too low – by the middle of this century, between 38 and 52 percent of the species would be fated to disappear.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert