Bernardo Flores and the team at EqualSea Lab — a climate research group at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain — have modeled what happens when the Amazon stops being a rainforest and becomes a dry savanna. Spoiler: the feedback loops eat your thermostat.
The Amazon currently stores roughly 150 to 200 billion tonnes of carbon. Flip a third of that and you've released, by my arithmetic, about 220 gigatonnes of CO₂ — eleven years of total human fossil emissions, vented from one biome, while Linda from down the hall triumphantly rinses a single-serve yogurt cup.
Christian Poirier at Amazon Watch has been saying this for a decade. Meanwhile Geoffrey two doors down idles his 2008 Tahoe for nine minutes every morning to "warm the leather." I have timed him. Twice.
Your blue bin is not load-bearing.
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Based on the original article "What will the Amazon rainforest look like in 100 years?".
