Courier Mail: SCIENTISTS fear the world’s first localised climate change extinction of a major mammal species might have already occurred in north Queensland. An expedition into the cloudy forests of the Carbine Range to find the beautiful white lemuroid ringtail possum has failed. The possum has not been seen on the Carbine Tableland, northwest of Cairns, in nearly four years and it is feared a temperature change of 0.8C is to blame. Record high temperatures in 2005 may have caused a …