Remembering Dr. Thomas Lovejoy (w/ WWF's Carter Roberts)
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The Amazon Tipping Point
In the 19 seventies, dogma was that vegetation is simply the consequence of climate and has no influence on it whatever. And a brazilian scientist named aneus salate looked at isotope, oxygen isotope ratios and rain water from the atlantic to the peruvium border. He showed without a doubt that the amazon made half of its own rainfall by recycling about five or six times as the air mass crosses the basin. So for that brief moment, you can actually see the hydrological cycle happening. But other things have been going on as well, including climate change and extensive use of fire which certainly hit the headlines last year. It i and the three are acting
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