... not a Greenforest. IDers are claiming that global warming is not occurring because global warming scientists predict drier weather in the Amazon. Drier weather came in the form of a 2006 drought, and scientists found that the rainforest got greener. Less clouds meant more light, and more green little chloroplasts. And if their predictions are wrong about one thing then all their predictions must be wrong.
The long and the short of it is that Global Warming alarmists were wrong again. They correctly predicted that the Amazon rain forest would get drier. What they didn’t predict is that it would get greener as it got drier. It seems rainforest growth is limited by sunlight. As it experienced a drought in 2005 the clouds dissipated a little, more sunlight got through, and productivity increased.
Okay fair enough, but where does this prove that global warming is not occurring? The rainforest may get greener in short periods of more sunlight, but that does not mean it is a healthy rainforest under conditions of long term drought. Eventually more drought tolerant species will survive while many of the humid loving species will die off and the rainforest and many of the animals that require, you know RAIN, will have trouble surviving. Short term results does not equal long term results. Productivity of a few species does not equal productivity of the system as a whole. When it comes to conservation all of the parts matter, not just the sum.
Do they have no concept of what science is? In science many times results can be surprising. That is why we do the studies, instead of just proclaiming that we are correct because God is on our side.
And yes the picture of rainforest is not from the Amazon. It is from The slope of Volcan Madera on Ometempe in Lake Nicaragua.
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