More pertinent, a modest 2°C change in ambient temperature leads to a 20 percent to 30 percent change in growth and mortality rates.11 This is huge and therein lies our problem. If global warming induces a temperature increase of around 2°C, which it is on track to do, then the pace of almost all biological life across all scales will increase by a whopping 20 percent to 30 percent. This is highly nontrivial and will potentially wreak havoc with the ecosystem.
