Trees Make Rain VII – Even the scientists are beginning to figure it out.
In a Guardian article we’re warned that the “Amazon rainforest is losing ability to regulate climate”
Despite ‘careful’ phrasing, this article and the research it refers to is very useful support for the notion that we need more forests if we are to survive here for much longer. Big Pharma and its mainstream ‘medicine’ lackeys can make all kinds of definitive claims about their particular brands of snake oil, but when one is challenging the onslaught of progress one has to use careful language:
the deterioration of the rainforest – through logging, fires and land clearance – has resulted in a decrease in forest transpiration and a lengthening of dry seasons. This might be one of the factors of the severe drought affecting south-east Brazil.
In fairness, this and other examples of cowardly deference to corporate masters might (!) be coming from the reporter, not the author of the study. In any case, the article has some interesting insights into how mainstream science has been separated from reality:
…science has become so fragmented. Atmospheric scientists don’t look at forests as much as they should and vice versa,” said Nobre, who wrote the report for a lay audience. [when you look into the abyss…?]
Full article in the link above, and archived as pdf here: Amazon_losing_ability_to_regulate_climate
p.s. Of course, saying that it might be one of the factors,the author may have been thinking of HAARP weather weapons as another factor, but it’s unlikely!