Thread by @ClimateBen

Trees:

1. Tropical forests are set to collapse between 2020 and 2080

2. It looks likely they will collapse between 2020 and 2045

3. All trees alive today are set to die as early as 2060

4. 50% of Amazon Rainforest tree species face extinction

None of this is front page news.

1. 'uncontrolled climate change would see tropical ocean ecosystems exposed to potentially catastrophic temperature rise by 2030' (2050 for tropical forests)

Limiting global warming to below 2C *could* delay the date of exposure by up to 6 decades.carbonbrief.org/deep-emissions…

2.

From 2016:

'Earth is on track to sail past the 2C threshold for dangerous global warming by 2050.'

Some new climate models show the 2030s. Without large emissions cuts (or even with?), we hit 2C as early as 2029-2036.

Forests will struggle to cope.
phys.org/news/2016-09-g…

3.

April 2020:

'trees alive today won't be able to survive in the climate expected in 40 years, Brodribb said. The negative impacts of warming and drying are already outpacing the fertilization benefits of increased carbon dioxide.'insideclimatenews.org/news/24042020/…

4.

'More than half of all tree species in the Amazon face extinction, warn international scientists.

According to new data, up to 57% of all Amazonian trees may already fit the criteria of being globally threatened.'

bbc.com/news/science-e…