Thanks! I had missed out on that article, though it is a couple of years old.

To be frank, I only left that Al Gore speech there as that was the only positive thing I could find amidst a whole of doom and gloom. Gore's figures are accurate and peer-reviewed, but even the most robust reforms aren't going to prevent this mass extinction. All we can hope to do is make sure it's not as deadly as the K-T event.

Also, I'm planning a follow-up post later in the year - I expect there will be more data about extinction of plant species. I expect plant extinction to be much worse than those of vertebrates.