Here we have a story about how climate change (and a disease) is killing off frogs worldwide.

A familiar noise that was ancient by the time the first dinosaurs evolved is
being silenced by a virulent fungus.

The croaks and chirps emitted by frogs and their ancestors for up to 300
million years are under threat around the world.

Conservationists estimate that 170 species have become extinct in the past two
decades and fear that another 1,900 are on the way out. Many of them have
been killed off by the chytrid fungus, which is thought to have emerged from
Africa to spread to every continent except Antarctica.

Tim Lambert had a report on something similar a year ago and there is this older paper as well. A disease, endemic in African frogs has, due to trade in said frogs, become pandemic in those frog populations not previously exposed to it. In one way it’s a surprise, of course, in another not. We’re well aware that diseases can indeed work this way: think of the effect that smallpox, measles, ‘flu even, have had in the past on human populations previously unexposed to them.

The one bit of this that no one seems to have proved yet is the link with climate change though.

Faced with the advance of the deadly disease, habitat loss, global warming…Of the 110 species of harlequin frog in Central and South America,
two thirds died out in the 1980s and 1990s from the effects of the chytrid
fungus and climate change….

That report on the Central American frogs is the one referred to at Tim Lambert’s and is the one that really doesn’t seem to have been proved yet.

Frogs are in serious decline, yes, the campaign to save them seems admirable but the problem really does seem to be the spread of a disease, not climate change. But perhaps you just have to mention that these days to get anyone to pay attention.