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Title
Bring Climate Change Back from the Future: The ‘shock’ over an Australian extinction shows that we still don’t accept that global warming is a problem for now,
Author(s)
Watson, James.
Published
2016
Publisher
Nature
Published Version DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/534437a
Abstract
Climate change has claimed its first mammal casualty, with the reported extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola). The last of these Australian marsupials is thought to have disappeared around 2009, but the release last week of a report by the Queensland government stating the probable extinction of the species and the cause — sea-level rise induced by climate change — made worldwide news.
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