Thursday, February 7th 2013, 8:15 AM EST (Reuters) - The Amazon
rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global
warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon
dioxide also acts as an airborne fertilizer, a study showed on
Wednesday. The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from
burning fossil fuels blamed for causing climate change, was
likely to exceed damaging effects of rising temperatures this
century such as drought, it said. "I am no longer so worried
about a catastrophic die-back due to CO2-induced climate
change," Professor Peter Cox of the University of Exeter in
England told Reuters of the study he led in the journal Nature.
"In that sense it's good news." Click source to read FULL report
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