Severe Amazon drought could imperil Earth’s climate
FEB 04, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025030
BBC : A paper in today’s Science quantifies the extent and severity of last year’s drought in the Amazon basin. The drought troubles climate scientists because it could represent a dangerous feedback loop. If, because of global warming, the Amazon suffers increasingly from droughts, the region’s trees will become less and less able to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, thereby worsening global warming and, with it, Amazonian droughts.
© 2011 American Institute of Physics
