Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to #carbon source

source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026…

New #research has delivered a stark warning about a major change in Africa's forests. Once a crucial part of the fight against #climate change, these #forests are now releasing more carbon than they absorb.

Many tipping points have likely already been crossed. This means that a truly dire and threatening future lies ahead for the next generation. We’ve known this since the 1970s, but #capitalism could not be stopped.

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Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source

Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010.

^ScienceDaily

Global #temperature correlates strongly with extreme climatic events.

In a new paper, exploiting natural global temperature variability, researchers find that 1ºC warming reduces world #GDP by over 20% in the long run.

This implicates that the #macroeconomic damages from #climate change are an order of magnitude larger than previously thought.

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