Chapter 12

Author: Lee Hannah

FIGURE 12.1 C over of the January 8, 2004, Issue of Nature .The Thomas et al. (2004) research (see Spotlight, previous page) appeared in this issue. Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

FIGURE 12.2 Front-page headlines in Europe accompanied the Nature paper, including this full-page color front page in the Guardian (United Kingdom). Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd., 2004.

FIGURE 12.3 Headlines in the United States. Note that some headlines (e.g., Washington Post in this sample) misrepresented the timeline of the estimated extinctions (the method used could not discriminate time of extinction; 2050 was the year of the emissions scenario used).

FIGURE 12.4 Global Distribution of Climate Change-Sensitive Bird Species. The number of restricted range endemic birds with elevational ranges of less than 1,000m are shown by region. The inset shows the proportion of global land area in biodiversity hotspots (left chart, in red)and the number of climate change sensitive birds in global biodiversity hotspots (right chart, in red).

FIGURE 12.5 Graffiti in a Washington, DC, Metro Stop, 2004.Release of extinction risk estimates corresponded with an increase in interest in climate change in the United States — a trend that would spike with the release of the fi lm, An Inconvenient Truth. Photo courtesy Steven Schneider.

FIGURE 12.6 Extinction Risk. The fi rst estimates of the extinction risk from climate change and subsequent research has inspired art from political cartoons to technical report covers. This 2009 image appeared on the cover of a report on Central American biodiversity and climate change prepared by The Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Central America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC). Image courtesy Luis Melillo, copyright CATHALAC.