Climate change link to lizard extinction

Climate change could wipe out 20% of the world's lizard species by 2080, according to a global-scale study.

An international team of scientists also found that rising temperatures had already driven 12% of Mexico's lizard populations to extinction.
Based on this discovery, the team was able to make global predictions using an "extinction model".
They conclude, in an article in Science journal, that "lizards have already crossed a threshold for extinctions".
Although the grim prediction for 2080 could change if humans are able to slow global climate warming, the scientists say that a sharp decline in their numbers had already begun and would continue for decades.

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