Known climates will disappear as a result of global warming, replaced by climates unknown in today’s world, a new study predicts. Entire plant and animal species could be lost as a result, said primary study author Jack Williams, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Global climate models for the next century forecast the disappearance of climates currently found in tropical highlands and regions near the poles, according to the study by researchers at UW-Madison and the University of Wyoming.