Beautifully illustrated but devastating piece on the transition of the #Amazon rainforest from carbon sink to carbon emitter from @nature
#ClimateChange #Carbon #CarbonSink #CarbonSource #Tropical forest #Rainforest #ClimateDiary
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-02599-1/index.html
@Ruth_Mottram that’s horrible … but thank you for sharing.
@Ruth_Mottram yes, I did ☺ — it’s a persistent theme: it’s important to be informed, but lots of news are dire warnings.
That’s why I’m glad that my climate links turned out to contain quite a bit of hope: https://www.draketo.de/wissen/klimalinks ☺
(which is one reason why I like to spread them: I started collecting them just to have an overview instead of daily distress, and that overview shows that part of the distress is psychological: weighting negatives higher than positives).
@Ruth_Mottram just look at the fraction of hope ( 💡 ) compared to the fraction of warnings ( ⚠ ). When I created the list, I expected it to be 95% warnings, but it turned out to be at least 30% hope (positive developments that show that we have a chance to avoid the worst). https://www.draketo.de/wissen/klimalinks
Had we started 10 years earlier — just doing what we do now but earlier — the fraction of hope would be a lot higher.
But that we have so much hope is the fruit of fighting for decades.
@Ruth_Mottram @nature reminds me of something i recently read --
the 'life sciences' are increasingly becoming sciences of the dead
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