Global Warming: Some scientists are calling this degree-by-degree projection a "highway to extinction."

Climate draft charts extinctions | By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Sat Mar 31, 5:59 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A key element of the second major report on climate change being released Friday in Belgium is a chart that maps out the effects of global warming, most of them bad, with every degree of temperature rise.

There's one bright spot: A minimal heat rise means more food production in northern regions of the world.

However, the number of species going extinct rises with the heat, as does the number of people who may starve, or face water shortages, or floods, according to the projections in the draft report obtained by The Associated Press

Some scientists are calling this degree-by-degree projection a "highway to extinction." ...