Amazon rainforest trees are getting bigger due to climate crisis, study finds
The research, published in the Nature Plants journal, found that the average size of trees in the Amazon has increased by 3.2 per cent every decade for at least the past 30 years.
Dr Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, from the University of Cambridge and joint lead author of the paper, said the results highlight the vital role of rainforests in tackling climate change.
She said: “Ahead of COP30 in Brazil later this year, these results underscore just how important tropical rainforests are in our ongoing efforts to mitigate against man-made climate change.
Presumably, one of the aims of Net Zero is to reduce the size of Amazon rainforest trees. Or bigger trees are good because...
But let us wait to see what Ed Miliband says, he's the expert.
2 comments:
The Sahara desert is also shrinking. The desert part that is. What a Climate disaster. Woe, wow and thrice woe. ( You have to be a certain age.). If we do not reduce the fraction of CO2 in the atmosphere from the current 0.00038, then those pesky Norsemen will be flooding the wine market with cheap wine, produced in Greenland, and corn growing in Northern Africa will be destabilising our markets.
Doonhamer - yes it is a disaster, as well as the shrinking Sahara threat there is the potential catastrophe of agricultural abundance to worry about. Possibly even figs grown in Derbyshire. Doom and more doom.
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