Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds - Nature
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Ground truthed thermal data from a new NASA satellite combined with experimental warming data from three continents in an empirical model suggests that tropical forests are closer to a high temperature threshold than previously thought.
  • joelthelion@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    we found that tropical forests can withstand up to a 3.9 ± 0.5 °C increase in air temperatures before a potential tipping point in metabolic function

    Not that close, fortunately. There are tons of other terrible disasters that will strike before we reach this point.