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Climate Change & Anthropocene Extinction 23: Amazon ‘tipping point’ is a sliding process, from +1C

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Bits of Science

Publication Date
2017-10-10

In this article we try to quantify the Amazon rainforest climate tipping point, based on available scientific literature. We conclude there’s no real basin-wide threshold temperature to activate the forest-killing biome switch. Rather it seems to be a sliding process, that we are already largely committed to under current CO2 concentrations.

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http://www.bitsofscience.org/climate-change-amazon-tipping-point-7540/