Eric Maugendre about emissions @data.yt · May 13 "Cascading transition risks towards degraded ecosystems in the #Amazon biome[: The] majority of the simulated transitions is caused by spatial knock-on effects from increasing drought intensities, leading to long-ranging and self-propelling cascades on scales of hundreds to thousands of kilometres."
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Deforestation and climate change will cause the remaining rainforest to lose resilience at global-warming levels of or slightly higher than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. "Deforestation-induced drying lowers #Amazon climate threshold."