One computer model of future climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions shows that the Amazon rainforest could become unsustainable under conditions of severely reduced rainfall and increased temperatures, leading to an almost complete loss of rainforest cover in the basin by 2100.,Cox, Betts, Jones, Spall and Totterdell. 2000. "Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model" . Nature, November 9, 2000. (subscription required)Radford, T. 2002. "World may be warming up even faster" . The Guardian. and severe economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of not averting the tipping point. However, simulations of Amazon basin climate change across many different models are not consistent in their estimation of any rainfall response, ranging from weak increases to strong decreases.Houghton, J.T. et al. 2001. "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis" . Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The result indicates that the rainforest could be threatened through the 21st century by climate change in addition to deforestation.
One computer model of future climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions shows that the Amazon rainforest could become unsustainable under conditions of severely reduced rainfall and increased temperatures, leading to an almost complete loss of rainforest cover in the basin by 2100.,Cox, Betts, Jones, Spall and Totterdell. 2000. "Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model" . Nature November 9, 2000. (subscription required)Radford, T. 2002. "World may be warming up even faster" . The Guardian. and severe economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of not averting the tipping point. However, simulations of Amazon basin climate change across many different models are not consistent in their estimation of any rainfall response, ranging from weak increases to strong decreases.Houghton, J.T. et al. 2001. "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis" . Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The result indicates that the rainforest could be threatened through the 21st century by climate change in addition to deforestation.