Tropical Forests in Ancient Global Warming

Tropical forests thrived in ancient global warming

Although tropical forests thrived in ancient global warming, they will not do well this time. Surprisingly, studies show that plant diversity has increased but the forest will still suffer due to the added factor of deforestation, which will speed up the forests drying up.

This article is from NewScientist.com and was posted November 11, 2010.

The source is biased because it blames deforestation as the main influence in the drying up of the forests and does not give global warming enough credit for also influencing the negative results in the forests. The source makes global warming seem like it is not one of the major reasons as to why the tropical forests are drying up.

This article is pro environmentalist because it states that deforestation is drying up the tropical forests which is bad. It insinuates that deforestation should be stopped but does not outright say it.

II. The Living World

C. Ecosystem Diversity (Biodiversity)

IV. Land and Water Use

B. Forestry (Forest management)

VII. Global Change

B. Global Warming (impacts and consequence of global warming)