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Amazon Institute for Environmental Research et al. 2006
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Worst Case Scenario for the Amazon Forest
Year:
2009
Author:
Philippe Rekacewicz assisted by Cecile Marin, Agnes Stienne, Guilio Frigieri, Riccardo Pravettoni, Laura Margueritte and Marion Lecoquierre.
Description:
2050. Global climate change has already
contributed to rising temperatures in
the Amazon which, when combined
with deforestation, have led to a cycle
of lower precipitation and a greater frequency
of droughts. Researchers at Brazil’s
National Institute for Space Research
say that the Amazon could reach a tipping
point – the point at which deforestation
and climate change combine to
trigger self-sustaining desertification –
in 50-60 years (Reuters 2008).
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