{"id":389031,"date":"2025-07-16T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=389031"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:39:12","slug":"the-10-animal-species-facing-uk-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=389031","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Animal Species \u201cFacing UK\u00a0Extinction\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Climate Scepticism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Jit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guess why\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cNew Tab\u201d on Firefox offers, as well as a grid of your favourite haunts, some curated stories from around the world. I once tried to get to the bottom of who selected them, perceiving a rather left-climate bias in the selections. However, despite a polite interaction with a volunteer, I ended up none the wiser. Probably the staff picks the stories. The staff is left-climate. Hence, so are the stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today [actually by the time you\u2019re reading this, it\u2019s two days ago], one such story<\/a> had the headline of this note, saving the snark quotes. Ten animal species were facing UK extinction, thanks to surging temperatures and climate change. The two factors are seemingly divisible now. It\u2019s rather like saying a murder victim died of a 45 calibre bullet through the heart, and a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are these ten species? I wondered. I thought I\u2019d try to guess, but before I could action that thought, I\u2019d already read the sub head, which as you can see gives away three of the victims: puffins, red squirrels, and hedgehogs. [The featured image might be a clue to one of the other 7 too.]<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now I only had to guess the rump. The guessing involved a certain amount of second guessing, because I had to put myself in the mindset of someone determined to find peril in the most innocuous things. Should I stick to birds and mammals? What about insects, or fish? The idea that one of our few reptiles might suffer from surging temperature was of course ludicrous. Well, here\u2019s what I came up with for the missing 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n