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The real importance of the Amazon rainforest

March 2010

Peter Bunyard, the science editor of The Ecologist and of Science in Society, has published an article called ‘The Real Importance of the Amazon Rain Forest’. He hopes to draw attention to the work of two scientists from the St Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute who show to what unexpected extent the rainforests are responsible not only for the moist, fertile climate of South America and Central Africa, but the equilibrium of world climate.

The research by AM Makarieva and VG Gorshkov, the Russian scientists, challenges the established views of climatologists and renders all current computer simulations regarding ‘global warming’ incomplete and inaccurate. Hence they have been adamantly ignored by the scientific community.

Bunyard states that ‘the implications of Makarieva and Gorshkov’s thesis are enormous; essentially it means that South America cannot do without its rainforests’ …and neither can we in the northern hemisphere.

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source: Peter Bunyard, The Real Importance of the Amazon Rain Forest, ISIS Report, 15/03/2010
string: All climate models questionable!, Amazon deforestation fails to improve local life

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