Posted on 03/28/2021 2:14:06 AM PDT by Libloather
The Amazon rainforest may now emit more greenhouse gases than the famously lush ecosystem absorbs, according to new research.
Long considered to be a bulwark against climate change because of its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide, a new study suggests rising temperatures, increasing drought and rampant deforestation have likely overwhelmed the Amazon’s ability to absorb more greenhouse gases than it emits, reports Craig Welch for National Geographic.
The sobering findings appear in a new study published earlier this month in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change that calculates, for the first time, the net emissions of greenhouse gases from both human and natural sources in the Amazon Basin, reports Liz Kimbrough for Mongabay.
A key distinction in appreciating the study’s findings is that they do not just concern carbon dioxide, according to Mongabay. Though carbon dioxide often gets top billing in discussions around climate change, there are many other significant greenhouse gases, including methane, nitrous oxide, aerosols and sooty black carbon.
So, while the Amazon still absorbs and stores a prodigious amount of carbon, its net greenhouse gas emissions have tipped from negative to positive - not just because its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide has been damaged by human activity, but also because the transforming landscape has increased emissions of these other greenhouse gases.
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Key words: may, suggests, likely
too much life! we have to kill it to save it!
Big deal. Just raise taxes, increase government, and ban guns. Problem solved!
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These people are trying to justify the greatest form of tyranny imaginable, to deny life to the people of countries that they despise and look down on, based on their lack of understanding of science.
Carbon Dioxide, a compound absolutely crucial and necessary for life to exist on Earth, has become a pollutant. Thus sayeth the Environmentalist Oligarchs that dominate the Global Junta. This is as ridiculous as it is obscene. Yet falsehoods become Gospel with these tyrants.
The Amazon Rainforest Now Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It Absorbs (only 9.82 years left)>>>
I resemble that remark, especially after eating baked beans.
Grant money is forever.
“The Amazon Rainforest”
Jeff Bezos owns a rainforest?
QUICK, Mandatory neutering of all liberals to help control this problem.
Wait, weren’t these same folks many years ago that were preaching to us to plant trees to save the world? LMAOGTFO!
It’ll have to go...
But never forget the leftist mantra that it is always humans that are the root cause, not nature or anything else for this made up problem.
despite its name, it is an unreliable source, prone to making stuff up and making critical omissions plus bad writing - sentence structure, editing etc. Nice pictures
Over time it pretty much has to be in equilibrium. The emissions from rotting wood and leaves on the floor roughly equal to the sequestration of carbon in the new growth.
As the forest shrinks, the sequestration is probably reduced faster than than the emissions.
You get a net absorption of CO2 when you have GROWING forests.
We should be logging the forests, turning the hardwood into nice furniture and flooring, and then planting new trees in their place.
Wait a minute- wasn’t it supposed to be gone twenty tears ago?
A series of judiciously placed nuclear explosions would convert the offending rainforest into emissions free desert.Do it now before we all burn up from AGW!
Exactly right! Make the study say whatever the recipients of it want it to say, and just enough of it to continue to get more funding.
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