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Over the last several years researchers have said that the Amazon is on the verge of transforming from a crucial storehouse for heat-trapping gasses to a source of them, a dangerous shift that could destabilize the atmosphere of the planet.
Now, after years of painstaking and inventive research, they have definitively measured that shift.
In a study published Wednesday in Nature, a team of researchers led by scientists from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, reported results from measuring carbon concentrations in columns of air above the Amazon. They found that the massive continental-size swath of tropical forest is releasing more carbon dioxide than it accumulates or stores, thanks to deforestation and fires.
“There is no doubt that the Amazon is a source,” said Luciana Gatti, the lead author of the study.
Journal Reference:
Luciana V. Gatti, Luana S. Basso, John B. Miller, et al. Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change, Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03629-6)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @02:26PM
hahaha, a 5% decline. i wonder which outfit measured that... or was it more along the line of: 5% less of burnable carbon was SOLD. anything "off the book" would not factor in.
you see we cannot realistically directly measue carbon pollution; it's just PR marketted that way. what we mist certainly are keeping very very precise tabs on is how much was sold BEFORE it was burned (once and once only).
so good luck sticking a co2 measuring IOT in every tailpipe on the planet.
btw, "limit carbon pollution" really means "we are limiting what you can sell to burn". in other words, we are suggesting very very strongly for you to hord it for an expanded guaranteed market dependancy on you (which we will guarantee to you by also using the word " energy usage limitation and conviniently totally ignoring and not supporting alternative energy sourced).