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Article: Amazon forest `will be dead in 50 years'
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 3, 1998
- Author:
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Copyright informationCopyright 1998 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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THE BRITISH government yesterday predicted the death of the Amazon
rainforest in 50 years' time - and a resultant surge in global
warming.
The disappearance of the Amazon forest is probably unstoppable
because of the climate change already occurring, according to the
UK's latest computer models of the climate.
Temperatures up to seven degrees higher than today and decreases
in rainfall of up to 50 centimetres a year will kill off vast areas
of what is now lush tropical forest, the world's richest wildlife
habitat, and turn it into grassland or even desert.
But even more critically, the Amazon and other forested regions
will be transformed from areas which now absorb carbon dioxide, the ...
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