Monday, May 20, 2013

Settled science: Remember when CO2 was going to dry out the Amazon? It's been getting wetter since 1990

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New study concludes that Amazon has become wetter since 1990 due to rise in Atlantic sea surface temperature:
2009:  A Drying Amazon Could Speed Climate Change : NPR
Co-author Dan Nepstad, a forest ecologist from the Moore Foundation in San Francisco, suggests that it may be climate warming that's causing the Amazon to dry up. He says some climatologists think "the warming of the northern tropical Atlantic of 2005 may have been more intense because of global warming." And that warming is believed to have shifted hotter, drier air over the Amazon.

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