Long-term fate of tropical forests may not be as dire as believed, says study

[rangerrebew]

Long-term fate of tropical forests may not be as dire as believed, says study

Date:
    April 28, 2017
Source:
    University of Colorado at Boulder
Summary:
    Conventional wisdom has held that tropical forest growth will dramatically slow with high levels of rainfall. But researchers turned that assumption on its head with an unprecedented review of data from 150 forests that concluded just the opposite.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170428154550.htm

[rangerrebew]

Not as dire as may be BELIEVED? NO!!  Not as dire as the false story being pushed by Saint Algore, The Holy Gorites, and the media.

[Oceander]

Very interesting article, and essentially turns most of the accepted climate change religion on its head.   

[Suppressed]

Very interesting article, and essentially turns most of the accepted climate change religion on its head.

Especially from University of Colorado at Boulder.

[Doug Loss]

You mean plants grow better in warm and wet conditions? Who would ever have suspected that?  Outside of anyone who ever lived in the country, I mean...

[Free Vulcan]

A few years back I was watching a PBS science show on how the dust from the Sahara fuels the jungle in the Amazon. Problem is that 5000 years ago the Sahara wasn't a desert, and apparently the Amazon wasn't so nearly jungle like.

Fairly obvious things aren't as fragile or dire as they seem, but adapt to current conditions.

[Fishrrman]

From the article:
"Conventional wisdom has held that tropical forest growth will dramatically slow with high levels of rainfall."

Hmmmm.

Isn't some of the forest in the Northern Hemisphere that most closely resembles "tropical" (even though it's not, technically, but in terms of dense growth) that of western Washington state and western British Columbia?

What's the weather like there?

(Corrections welcomed)