The major rainforest regions of South/Central America, Africa, Southeast Asia, & Australia have all gone beyond a crucial tipping point.
Even if deforestation is curbed, they will collapse, with calamitous consequences for all life on Earth.
No, this couldn't be true.
Could it?
Even if deforestation is curbed, they will collapse, with calamitous consequences for all life on Earth.
No, this couldn't be true.
Could it?
The definition of a tipping point:
'it's happening now. Nobody saw it coming this soon...
"It's likely the forests won't be coming back as we know them."
Australia, Central & South America, South Africa, the U.S. West at risk.
insideclimatenews.org/news/08012020/…
'it's happening now. Nobody saw it coming this soon...
"It's likely the forests won't be coming back as we know them."
Australia, Central & South America, South Africa, the U.S. West at risk.
insideclimatenews.org/news/08012020/…
As global warming hits 1.5°C and then 2°C (probably in the coming decade or so), it is hard to see how tropical forests as we know them today will survive, especially as there are no signs of deforestation being brought under control.
Scientists' 2017 work on world tropical rainforest fragmentation showed unstoppable collapse was maybe just several years away, even with relatively minor deforestation.
3 yrs later, one of the scientists just confirmed that fragmentation is increasing.👇
3 yrs later, one of the scientists just confirmed that fragmentation is increasing.👇
Last year I considered suggesting the possible death of the Amazon Rainforest by 2029 to be a touch extravagant. Today it seems entirely reasonable as a scenario.
🔥This thread (and the thread at its conclusion) gives details:
🔥This thread (and the thread at its conclusion) gives details:
Here's another recent near-term projection of a catastrophic rainforest tipping point:
⚠️ “Forests are the only carbon capture and storage 'technology' we have in our grasp that is safe, proven, inexpensive, immediately available at scale, and capable of providing beneficial ripple effects—from regulating rainfall patterns to..."
independent.co.uk/news/science/t…
independent.co.uk/news/science/t…
Alarming tipping point now bearing down at which a combination of deforestation and climate change would transform much of the Amazon into a savanna ecosystem, with dire effects on the world’s climate system.
Agribusiness firms are driving the destruction.
e360.yale.edu/features/will-…
Agribusiness firms are driving the destruction.
e360.yale.edu/features/will-…
ALL tropical forests and ecosystems around the world are experiencing “accelerating decline” as a result of human-caused abrupt climate change.
earther.gizmodo.com/worlds-oldest-…
earther.gizmodo.com/worlds-oldest-…
