<i>Until now</i>, species losses have been due to factors 1,2,3.  But climate change does threaten to greatly accelerate the rate of species collapse, perhaps unstoppably so, in the coming decades and centuries.<p>So you&#x27;re giving Exxon (and the fossil fuel industry generally) a hell of a break, simply because thus far, we&#x27;ve barely been able to see the effects of climate change.