Amazon deforestation heats up Tibet, says new study

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Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest can directly influence temperatures in Tibet, which is more than 15,000 kilometres away from the tropical biome, according to a new report.
Even modest, incremental changes in this biome might eventually result in massive, abrupt and permanent changes to the planet.
Logging, road construction, and warming are already today stressing the Amazon rainforest, and will likely do so even more in the future — and while the Amazon region is, of course, an important Earth system element by itself.
These are tagged ‘tipping elements’ and have certain temperature thresholds, or tipping points, beyond which even a slight change may lead to irreparable and catastrophic consequences on our plane
Proposing a climate network approach to analyse the global impacts of a prominent tipping element, they concluded that the harsh and warmer temperatures in the Amazon correlated with rising temperatures in Tibet and the West Antarctic ice sheet.
They have evidence that when it rained more in the Amazon, the other two regions were prone to receive less precipitation. The paper also highlighted that the snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau has been on a decline since 2008.

About Amazon Rainforest:

Comprising about 40% of Brazil’s total area, it is bounded by the Guiana Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, the Brazilian central plateau to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
These are large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries in northern South America and covering an area of 6,000,000 square km.
Tropical forests are closed-canopy forests growing within 28 degrees north or south of the equator.
They are very wet places, receiving more than 200 cm rainfall per year, either seasonally or throughout the year.
Temperatures are uniformly high – between 20°C and 35°C.