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Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming
Accelerating deforestation rates in Earth’s tropical rainforests have dramatic impacts on local public health, agricultural productivity, and global climate change. We used satellite observations to quantify the local temperature changes in deforested patches of rainforests across the tropics and found local warming larger than that predicted from more than a century of climate change under a worst-case emissions scenario. We show that the most extreme warming is typically found in large patches of deforestation; the combined effects of deforestation and climate change on tropical temperatures present a uniquely difficult challenge to the long term public health, occupational safety, and economic security of tropical populations.
Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming
Accelerating deforestation rates in Earth’s tropical rainforests have dramatic impacts on local public health, agricultural productivity, and global climate change. We used satellite observations to quantify the local temperature changes in deforested patches of rainforests across the tropics and found local warming larger than that predicted from more than a century of climate change under a worst-case emissions scenario. We show that the most extreme warming is typically found in large patches of deforestation; the combined effects of deforestation and climate change on tropical temperatures present a uniquely difficult challenge to the long term public health, occupational safety, and economic security of tropical populations.
Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming
Lucas R Vargas Zeppetello (author) / Luke A Parsons (author) / June T Spector (author) / Rosamond L Naylor (author) / David S Battisti (author) / Yuta J Masuda (author) / Nicholas H Wolff (author)
2020
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Electronic Resource
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