Oh No! Mythical Global Warming 'Could' Kill Off Some Lizards

More hysteria disguised as science.

Lizards are in danger of dying out on a large scale as rising global temperatures force them to spend more time staying cool in the shade and less time tending to basic needs like eating and mating.

Of course temperatures aren't rising so this story is rendered meaningless in the first sentence. But we'll play along.

Scientists warn in a research paper published on Thursday that if the planet continues to heat up at current rates, 20 percent of all lizard species could go extinct by 2080.

So let's all alter our lives just in case a fifth of lizards could be extinct in 70 years. Hey, who isn't up for that?

"The numbers are actually pretty scary," said lead researcher Barry Sinervo from the University of California Santa Cruz. "We've got to try to limit climate change impacts right now or we are sending a whole bunch of species into oblivion."

A mass extinction of lizards, which eat insects and are eaten by birds, could have devastating effects up and down the food chain, but the extent is difficult to predict.

UC Santa Cruz?

Enough said.