30th May 2008

This Time Cleaner Air has Pushed Amazon at Stake

posted in Global Warming |

For a long period of time we are persistently and of course perennially suffering from many things including some dangerous diseases and conditions and above all from global warming that have been caused by polluted air, sometimes directly and some times indirectly.

But this time you would be shocked to learn that the largest rain forest of our planet is suffering for too much clean air and it is in the verge of being completely destroyed naturally.

Some Facts: Really Tough to Digest
We are providing some proven facts that have been derived by some of the famous environmentalists’ and climate scientists’ studies.

  • The Amazon that is widely known as the lungs of the earth- can be wiped out within half a century as a dire consequence of too much clean air, as it is suggested by some prominent Brazilian and UK climate scientist in the journal called Nature.
  • According to a new research study, there is a connection between dipping sulphur dioxide emissions from increasing sea surface temperatures in the tropical north Atlantic and burning coal, resulting in a heightened risk of drought in the Amazon rainforest.
  • The Amazon rainforest consists of around one tenth of the entire carbon stored in the   land ecosystems. It also recycles a great portion of the rainfall that actually falls upon it.
  • As a consequence any kind of major variation to its existing vegetation that is generally brought about by deforestation or drought might leave an important as well as largely considerable impact on the global climate system.

Three Noteworthy Points about Amazon Rain Forest
The vast rainforest is very crucial to the Earth’s climate and with the every passing day, this forest is gradually coming under severe threat from the attempts to restrain the pollution, which causes acid rain, warn UK and Brazilian climate scientists. These are three such things that Amazon is able to do:

  • The real ‘greenhouse effect’.
  • Increase in dust offsets global warming.
  • Amazon rainforest ‘could resist climate change’.

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