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  2. Extinction risk from climate change - Wikipedia

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    The report concluded that global warming of 2 °C (3.6 °F) over the preindustrial levels would threaten an estimated 5% of all the Earth's species with extinction even in the absence of the other four factors, while if the warming reached 4.3 °C (7.7 °F), 16% of the Earth's species would be threatened with extinction.

  3. London Underground mosquito - Wikipedia

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    Londoners sheltering from the Blitz in underground stations suffered from mosquito bites. This mosquito is found in underground systems around the world. Some authors proposed that it is a new species that evolved since the 19th century in adaptation to human-made underground systems, but it is more likely that it has been in existence for at least hundreds of years and colonized the warm ...

  4. Climatic adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Climatic adaptation refers to adaptations of an organism that are triggered due to the patterns of variation of abiotic factors that determine a specific climate. Annual means, seasonal variation and daily patterns of abiotic factors are properties of a climate where organisms can be adapted to.

  5. Effects of climate change on biomes - Wikipedia

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    The Arctic was historically described as warming twice as fast as the global average, [39] but this estimate was based on older observations which missed the more recent acceleration. By 2021, enough data was available to show that the Arctic had warmed three times as fast as the globe - 3.1°C between 1971 and 2019, as opposed to the global ...

  6. Climate change adaptation - Wikipedia

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    The IPCC's most recent summary states that adaptation will cost $15 to 411 billion per year for climate change impacts to 2030. Most estimates are well above $100 billion." [ 113 ] : Cross-Chapter Box FINANCE Because these costs are much higher than the finance available, there is an adaptation gap.

  7. Spider behavior - Wikipedia

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    Spider behavior refers to the range of behaviors and activities performed by spiders. Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom . They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms [ 1 ] which is reflected in their ...

  8. IPCC Third Assessment Report - Wikipedia

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    The key conclusions of Working Group I [11] were: . An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system (The global average surface temperature has increased over the 20th century by about 0.6 °C; Temperatures have risen during the past four decades in the lowest 8 kilometres of the atmosphere; Snow cover and ice extent have ...

  9. Climate change and birds - Wikipedia

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    Climate change has raised the temperature of the Earth by about 1.1 °C (2.0 °F) since the Industrial Revolution.As the extent of future greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation actions determines the climate change scenario taken, warming may increase from present levels by less than 0.4 °C (0.72 °F) with rapid and comprehensive mitigation (the 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) Paris Agreement goal) to ...