Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming
Accelerating deforestation rates in Earth’s tropical rainforests have dramatic impacts on local public health, agricultural productivity, and global climate change. We used satellite observations to quantify the local temperature changes in deforested patches of rainforests across the tropics and fo...
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| author | Lucas R Vargas Zeppetello Luke A Parsons June T Spector Rosamond L Naylor David S Battisti Yuta J Masuda Nicholas H Wolff |
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| description | Accelerating deforestation rates in Earth’s tropical rainforests have dramatic impacts on local public health, agricultural productivity, and global climate change. We used satellite observations to quantify the local temperature changes in deforested patches of rainforests across the tropics and found local warming larger than that predicted from more than a century of climate change under a worst-case emissions scenario. We show that the most extreme warming is typically found in large patches of deforestation; the combined effects of deforestation and climate change on tropical temperatures present a uniquely difficult challenge to the long term public health, occupational safety, and economic security of tropical populations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-65e8527161314d3c92e5391cfb16cbfc2023-08-09T15:08:21ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262020-01-0115808401210.1088/1748-9326/ab96d2Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warmingLucas R Vargas Zeppetello0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4983-0510Luke A Parsons1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3147-0593June T Spector2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0761-1256Rosamond L Naylor3David S Battisti4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4871-1293Yuta J Masuda5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1698-4855Nicholas H Wolff6https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1162-3556Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaDepartment of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaDepartment of Earth System Sciences, Stanford University , Palo Alto, CA, United States of America; Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University , Palo Alto, CA, United States of AmericaDepartment of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington , Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaGlobal Science, The Nature Conservancy , Arlington, VA, United States of AmericaGlobal Science, The Nature Conservancy , Arlington, VA, United States of AmericaAccelerating deforestation rates in Earth’s tropical rainforests have dramatic impacts on local public health, agricultural productivity, and global climate change. We used satellite observations to quantify the local temperature changes in deforested patches of rainforests across the tropics and found local warming larger than that predicted from more than a century of climate change under a worst-case emissions scenario. We show that the most extreme warming is typically found in large patches of deforestation; the combined effects of deforestation and climate change on tropical temperatures present a uniquely difficult challenge to the long term public health, occupational safety, and economic security of tropical populations.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab96d2land use changedeforestation impactstemperature change |
| spellingShingle | Lucas R Vargas Zeppetello Luke A Parsons June T Spector Rosamond L Naylor David S Battisti Yuta J Masuda Nicholas H Wolff Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming Environmental Research Letters land use change deforestation impacts temperature change |
| title | Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming |
| title_full | Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming |
| title_fullStr | Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming |
| title_full_unstemmed | Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming |
| title_short | Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming |
| title_sort | large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming |
| topic | land use change deforestation impacts temperature change |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab96d2 |
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