[caiob]

Despite what these “studies” say, the Amazon is NOT near a tipping point of destruction. In fact, it’s not even close. These publications fail to disclose that these fires are seasonal and will continue to happen without man-interference. These so-called protection of the Amazon is part of an agenda rich countries have to keep Brazil uncompetitive. How about we start rebuilding green space in Western Europe? How about we start planting more trees in southern California?

[neuronic]

I am going to go ahead and put more credibility into peer-reviewed research in Nature than some random HN comment without sources.

[gus_massa]

The link is no not a peer-reviewed research in Nature, it is a "News Feature" written by "a science writer based in Manaus, Brazil."

The cites for the tipping point are two editorials written by the same team of two researches in Science Advances, these are editorials, not research articles.

They cite https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200... that is a peer-reviewed research article in Geophysical Research Letters.

The research article claims that with a 40% deforestation the rain reduction will cause problems, but in the editorial they use hand waving to reduce that to 20%.