In a review of past studies researchers have found that 38 of 85 documented plants and animals have shrunk in size due to climate change.
It is believe species are shrinking in size as a response to climate change.
“There is a trend in a number of organisms across the board, from plants to big vertebrates, getting smaller,” study co-author Jennifer Sheridan, a biology researcher at the University of Alabama, told The Age.
With crop plants and protein sources likely to be negatively affected by the response to climate change there could be an impact on human nutrition.
David Nutzuki
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The only thing that is shrinking is general respect for the fear mongering main-scream media and their lazy copy and paste news editors. You so called journalists have done to journalism what nasty priests did for religion.
Read moreAnd let's not forget the exploiting and exaggerating scientists who brought us not only pesticides but 25 years of needless CO2 panic that condemned billions of children needlessly to a death by CO2.
Meanwhile, the UN had allowed carbon trading markets run by corporations and…