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Media Falsely Claims Amazon Rainforest Is At Climate Change ‘Tipping Point’

by Linnea Lueken
March 10, 2022, 8:53 AM
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amazon rainforestYahoo News recently published an article claiming the Amazon rainforest is nearing the point of no return; that climate change is pushing the region to the brink of total collapse. [bold, links added]

This is false; an unsupported assertion lacking data to back it up.

The article, titled “Amazon rainforest is reaching climate change ‘tipping point’: Study,” is written by senior editor Ben Adler.

Adler says a new study indicates there is potential for permanent damage to the rainforest due to climate change. Adler writes:

The Amazon rainforest is reaching a critical “tipping point,” according to researchers, beyond which it may no longer be able to recover from events such as droughts and wildfires. The result, a new analysis of satellite data shows, would be permanent loss of much of the rainforest, with devastating consequences for climate change and biodiversity.

The claim that the Amazon rainforest will disappear or turn into a different biotope in a matter of decades has been made before. Citing hard data, Climate Realism has already debunked this claim once before.

A cornerstone of the study Adler covers is the idea that a warmer climate dries out vegetation by increasing evaporation.

“Warmer temperatures, leading to increased water evaporation that dries out vegetation, has made its trees more vulnerable to droughts and wildfires,” Adler said.

However, drier conditions are not occurring in much of the Amazon as the Earth modestly warms. Indeed, the only areas that are significantly drying are those that have been deforested.

Because internal conditions in the Amazon help produce its climate conditions, including its persistent rainfall, only areas that have been denuded have experienced declining rainfall.

In those areas, unfortunately, that no longer have the jungle cover to absorb and mitigate the rainfall, when rains occur, flooding is more frequent.

Even with that factored in, recent data shows rainfall has increased during the wet season for large portions of the Amazon basin.

Not only that, satellite data from NASA show most of the Amazon rainforest, like forested areas around the globe, is experiencing increased vegetation cover.

Satellites show that the Amazon is greening over time, not diminishing. (See the image from NASA below)

Figure 1: Credits to Boston University/R. Myneni via NASA.gov: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

NASA even goes so far as to explain that rising carbon dioxide levels are acting as fertilizer to drive this growth:

Every year, about half of the 10 billion tons of carbon emitted into the atmosphere from human activities remains temporarily stored, in about equal parts, in the oceans and plants.

“While our study did not address the connection between greening and carbon storage in plants, other studies have reported an increasing carbon sink on land since the 1980s, which is entirely consistent with the idea of a greening Earth,” said co-author Shilong Piao of the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University.

The World Bank’s Climate Change Knowledge Portal also explains that the Amazon basin is susceptible to natural changes in dry and wet periods due to effects from the South American Monsoon System (SAMS), El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).

“During El Niño events, the northern region receives less rainfall than normal in summer, while the southern region receives more rainfall; the opposite occurs during La Niña events,” reports the World Bank.

According to the report, much of the recent damage done to parts of the Amazon are partially due to changes made to the land by human activity.

“Over the last three decades, the increased frequency and intensity of heavy rainfall events have often resulted in intense soil run-off, flash flooding and landslides, due in part to an increase in environmental degradation.”

The culprit for degradation is poorly managed and often illegal logging, leading to large areas of deforestation, in part by miners, ranchers, and poor farmers, for palm oil plantations, sugarcane for ethanol, and pushing cattle rangeland further into the rainforest zones.

Sadly, Adler failed to do a fact check, relying instead on the word of researchers who should know better than to rely on flawed climate models’ predictions of future disasters.

An examination of real-world data and historic records would have shown Adler that with decent forest management and healthy conservation practices, the Amazon rainforest will be fine.

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  1. Spurwing Plover says:
    3 years ago

    Back in the 1990’s we were being old the Rain Forests were being wiped out their Save the Rain Forest camapaigns and all that yes we want t o keep the Rain Forests we just need to start putting the Eco-Freaks in the Amazon Area

  2. Spurwing Plover says:
    3 years ago

    Start with Julia(Butterfly)Hill and her fellow Tree Huggers/Sitters

  3. trevor collins says:
    3 years ago

    in other words, we should send this echo freaks to the Amazon for a few days?? will they come back?? from Trevor in New Zealand.

  4. aido says:
    3 years ago

    ………………………………..
    Although the rainforests do emit oxygen, most of it is taken up again by the decaying trees and vegetation on the forest floor. And as for the trees soaking up a lot of carbon dioxide, the decaying leaves and trees put out an equal amount of carbon dioxide in the decomposition process. There’s little net long-term gain in oxygen or reduction in CO2 from mature forests. So much for the Amazon Rainforest being “the lungs of the planet”. A catchy slogan, but quite wrong.

    If the Amazon is not the lungs of the planet”, what are its other attributes we should consider? Some say it’s home to some ten percent of the Earth’s animal species. The same people rarely tell you that 90% of those ‘animals’ are insects. The mammal species are mostly rodents and bats. Fish is available for the brave. Not much for the local inhabitants to eat, then.
    We all want to live in a pleasant environment, but the Amazon Basin is not one that many of us would choose. The forest abounds with malaria and yellow fever-bearing mosquitos. Its streams contain flesh-eating piranhas and even some sharks. On land one must cope with wasps, ticks, scorpions, stinging bees, poisonous toads, venomous vipers and monster spiders. There’s little electricity except in the towns and few if any of the many conveniences we in the developed world take for granted. In most of the forest, cooking is over open fires, leading to health problems. The average life span is a mere forty-three years.
    This is the environment that the Environmentalists want to preserve. Right.

  5. Spurwing Plover says:
    3 years ago

    We dont want the Rain Forests to disappear we want the Eco-Freaks to Get a Life and start planting trees

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