Amazon Rainforest to Face Climate Change Caused Dieback
If climate change leads to dieback of forests - the Amazon in particular - as many models are forecasting; there will be a surge in carbon dioxide. In conjunction with fossil fuel dependency, this may well push the Earth into inescapable positive feedback that makes the world largely uninhabitable for advanced societies. Climate and forests are the key to global ecological sustainability (ok, water and oceans too).
Amazon forest breathing uneasily
"In the Amazon, the vegetation dies back because there won't be enough rain," explained climatologist Vicky Pope, detailing one of the most sophisticated studies yet -- by Britain's Hadley Center -- of what a warmer world would mean.
For South America's rain forests, such a "dieback" would mean steady decomposition of dead vegetation and the release into the atmosphere of massive amounts of carbon dioxide, the "greenhouse gas" that itself is blamed for much of climate change.

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INDISPUTABLE GLOBAL FACTS – THE RESULTS OF A GLOBAL POLICY ERROR
Humans are not the only species on the planet – therefore they must share the planet’s habitat and resources equitably.
For thousands of years Nature maintained an equitable balance between the species with the exception of the Dynosaurs which – some 60 million years ago – stripped the planet of its photosynthesis and hence caused their own extinction.
About a million years ago the planet had recovered and was largely covered in forest; generating the carbon fuels that humans are now depleting as fast and furious as possible - just like the Dynosaurs depleted the global plant life. The difference being that the Dynosaurs did neither have institutions nor governments that could have prevented the self-destructive defoliation.
By 1750 - as a direct result of the then human over-population having reached some 600 million - the industrial age started with the textile industry as ever more textiles were needed everywhere. Thus forcing millions of previously self-employed home spinners and weavers into ever expanding mass-production factories. The age of ruthless exploitation of child labour, colonies, slaves and natural resources commenced.
By 1850 human over-population had doubled to some 1200 million and entrenched poverty became a global fact of life for ever larger numbers of humans forced into unemployment or work for wages that were depressed because of massive over-supply of labour. There would always be somebody who would work for less just to survive. Ever more humans migrated to less over-populated continents where they engaged in the massive slaughter of indigenous fellow species, wildlife, forests and natural habitat applying the same ruthless tactics that were meted out to them in their own homelands.
By 1950 human over-population had again doubled to some 2500 million and any notions of environmental responsibility, protection of remaining forests, natural habitat and equitable rights of wildlife, i.e. bio-diversity were dismissed, ignored or seen as anti Human Rights – which humans were now focusing on following two world wars which had caused more destruction and deaths than all previous wars.
Since 1950 more irreparable resource depletion, deforestation, habitat destruction, bio-diversity extermination, systemic pollution of the global life support system of air, water and soil and toxic and radio-active wastelaying has taken place than in the previous 60 million years - to feed, house, clothe, transport, employ, defend and entertain the growing mass of humans that have swelled to more than 6500 million today.
Humans have created a polluted and poisoned global environment that causes cancer, respiratory and lung ailments, heart and circulatory and other directly related diseases that kill ever more humans other than the globally rising road accident/injuries toll. Additionally some 50,000 die every day from malnutrition – up from 12,000 a day in 1972.
Yet despite this self-induced massacre unsustainable human over-population increases at an annual rate of more than 80 million out of 150 million annual births after deduction of some 50 million abortions.
While some humans have always believed that the Natural Habitat and Bio-Diversity are god given enemies whose wealth and existence must either be exploited and extorted or exterminated according to human requirements – most humans are now so divorced from Nature and Fellow species that this is a side issue unless there is a direct commercial benefit. Humans have turned the entire existential philosophy into a commercial enterprise. Even the arts and what cynical humans now call culture and civilisation has been made into a totalitarian commercial undertaking that causes ever more Nature and Bio-Diversity destruction which is subliminally accepted as if it was a minor side effect.
Ironically this savage exploitation/destruction of Nature and Bio-Diversity has caused ever more humans to suffer from “poverty”, i.e. hunger as massive chemically poisoned cash crop plantations feed the industrialised nations in an exchange of debt/hardware/rubbish for food. Those who want to cancel the debt simply want to open the floodgates for more exports of the same to sustain the market-saturated western economies and thereby causing more systemic poverty because you can’t eat CDs, motor vehicles, guns or bonds and shares. In the industrialised countries “poverty” extends to ever larger masses subsisting in the sensory deprivations and autistic environments of the Nature and Bio-Diversity eradicated (other than attracting pests and vermin) inner city slums where infernal traffic, crime, violence, drugs, alcohol and fastfood underpin meaningless existence within the blackmail and extortion/theft rackets that politicians call socially integrated local economy. (EU mafia godfathers call it “jobs and growth” strategy)
The global policy error of laissez faire which some claim is a god given right that bestows on humans the power of world domination regardless of the terrorisation, torture, slaughter and extermination it causes to Nature and Bio-Diversity has been compounded by the inherent socio-economic forces that create ever larger vested interests which in turn act as partitions between understanding and dissemination of the facts of cause and effect which they see as detrimental to their political, economic, educational and institutional power which is enhanced by ever more indoctrinated masses that are kept in ignorance.
In socio-economic-ecological terms it has been totally ignored that ever more humans create the forces and quantum that lead to ever more mass-production which requires ever more mass-consumption which in turn requires ever more humans which causes ever more Natural Habitat and Bio-Diversity extermination and extinction - even if all the pollution and waste and resource depletion problems could be “solved”.
Thus a make belief world has been created where just about every notion of human self righteousness, self- indulgence, self-obsession, self-serving egoism is discussed ad nauseaum including a smoke screen of global environmental concern that is nothing other than an ever growing business that seeks to create more jobs for ever more humans. This is variously called economic growth and sustainable development even though the two are mutually opposed and negate each other. In reality sustainability has long been exceeded as the massive global natural habitat and bio-diversity disappearance is unmistakeably demonstrating.
Yet humans carry on as if nothing was happening. Their only concern is to make more money knowing that all money is directly recycled into global habitat and bio-diversity destruction. Symptomatically all so-called leadership, governance, ethics and environmental courses in universities and institutions connive and collude with this deliberate planet destruction because they are either sponsored or financed by the vested interests.
The global inter-connection between everything is ignored because it would expose the cause of it all:
THE POLICY ERROR THAT EMBARKED HUMANS ON A MASSIVE GLOBAL TSUNAMI OF OVER-POPULATION.
The solution is:
http://www.equalearth.org/
Posted by: Maria Pasionara | February 12, 2005 5:06 AM
this is a very helpful website
Posted by: Anonymous | March 21, 2005 10:16 AM
i think you should add pictures to this website and even graphs.At the moment i am doing a report wich is 11 pages of a4 long.In this i need to include a graph of rainfall and a graph to show temperature.I typed in googles search engine box '' a climate graph for the amazon rainforest '' it gave me this web site address but you dont seem to have any graph at all.Am i mistaken and have not looked hard enough or haven't you got any graphs please reply to me as i am baffled to where it is if you do have a graph somewhere on this site i recomend to you that ypu make it easier to find.
Posted by: stephanie parry | June 6, 2005 1:50 PM
i think this was helpful, i am only 11 but i believe that the Amazon (river and rainforest) is one the world's most beautiful and exotic places and that we should do something!
Posted by: Christina | October 13, 2005 4:24 PM
I think what people are doing to the Rainforest is wrong. If your wondering why it's because some many animals are losing there homes so we could have our homes and met our needs. This is what leads to the animals extincion. Also im not saying teree is any structures in the rainforest, but if there is they could be getting ruined and anobody would really notice or care.
Posted by: bree age 13 | November 8, 2005 9:49 AM
put on some graphs
Posted by: Lauren | December 6, 2005 9:07 AM
The human short sighted pursuit of temporary power at the cost of long term stability is an evolutionarily induced problem, I think. Evolution favors the species that is capable of surviving long enough to have children. The species that seeks stability while sacrificing short-term power will be crushed by the species that takes huge risks, dominates the other species, and fails to plan for the future. The short-term species is capable of producing more children, and therefore gains dominance. When it extincts later, the long-term species gains dominance, but as it evolves, the branches of it that are more short-term become dominant. This is a natural cycle that results in the eventual extinction of almost every organism.
Posted by: Annonymous | December 20, 2005 4:03 PM
uve helped me with my geography work. thanks
Posted by: froggy | April 26, 2006 6:15 AM
put some climate graphs on
Posted by: Anonymous | April 26, 2006 6:22 AM
WHAT IS THE CLIMATE OF THE AMAZON?
Posted by: shanice | May 24, 2006 4:00 AM
i love trees
Posted by: Anonymous | June 28, 2006 8:54 AM
i have an project and need a graph of rainforest destruction I tpyed in "graphs on rainforest destruction' and this is the fith website with no graph. I think u should put graphs on climate tempertura destruction ......
Posted by: Anonymous | September 8, 2006 7:09 PM
u are shit!!!! tell ur boss he wil di at 2 pm on monday the 2nd of november
Posted by: Anonymous | October 9, 2006 10:44 AM
answer the people and put some graphs on! some people want to know this, for work, research, school, college etc. do that and everyone will owe you a favour
Posted by: Dark Prince Reborn | October 12, 2006 12:57 PM
ya need a decent climate graph 4 a rainforest sumwere!!!!!
Posted by: person tht needs a climate graph! | October 29, 2006 1:01 PM
hey you what should we talk about o yea how about the rain forest i have just the thing to say i hate it
!!!!!
Posted by: Ron | November 5, 2006 11:12 AM
this sight is for hippies plus i also need a climate graph
Posted by: hippicrrite | November 19, 2006 10:51 AM
get some graphs
Response: see http://www.climateark.org/overview/
Posted by: anonamous | December 5, 2006 12:32 PM
put some climate graphs on here for people to use for research and for school its children like us that need it most .
Response: see http://www.climateark.org/overview/
Posted by: charlotte | December 6, 2006 5:19 AM
need some graphs
Posted by: Anonymous | December 18, 2006 9:07 AM
the amazon is full of trees
Posted by: Nick | January 16, 2007 8:25 AM
OMGGG
LIKE THE RAINFOREST IS LIKE DYING AND IT LIKE TOTALLY SUXX B/C LIKE I WENT THERE ONCE AND IT WSA LIKE YAH
Posted by: 3MILY | February 20, 2007 9:10 PM
i love to learn about the rain forest and how people try to save it.
Posted by: brittany hammond | May 18, 2007 10:58 AM
where is the graph? i can not find it
Posted by: carlee | September 3, 2007 9:03 PM
LIKE OMG i am LIKE crying here LIKE the rainforest
is LIKE dying boo hoo i am LIKE having LIKE a BF LIKE omg!!!!!!!!!!! oh oops i mean where is ur graphs i can not find them????????
by the way nice site!!!
Posted by: carlee | September 3, 2007 9:09 PM
You really do need climate graphs.
This site is so misleading because when you type climate graphs for the amazon in google this site comes up.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 6, 2008 12:15 PM
Extensive climate change graphs can be found at http://www.climateark.org/overview/
Posted by: Dr. Glen Barry | April 8, 2008 11:07 AM
i didnt even know there were such a lot of facts on the rainforest
Posted by: Anonymous | April 21, 2008 11:19 AM
Sites like this are great, but ultimately climate change is already upon us, and all the rhetoric from our various governments about the need to take action is simply a smoke screen to appease voters for the next election.
In short, this planet would have been much better off without us, and will recover very nicely after we're gone over the next few million years, which on a geological time scale is the blink of an eye.
Posted by: David | May 31, 2008 6:14 PM