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Less Rainfall is Drying Up The Amazon

June is the 9th month of our Amazon Rainfall Project. It seems that the Language to Nature Method was very successful in the Northern Amazonian, but dry conditions exist where the forest is being cut down in the South. The season is now well into its traditional dry months. The Southern Amazon Basin has been getting less rainfall than normal. The Northern Amazon Basin is managing well with rainfall levels well within our goals. Drought is still a possibility.

New information from the book “Extreme Weather” by Peter Bunyard says that 2006 rainfall for the Amazon Basin threatened to be as bad, if not worse, than 2005. According to the Brazilian ecologist, Otavio Luz Castello, the waters of the Amazon were draining away even faster than 2005. I cannot imagine what would have happened to the forest if this work had not started in October 1, 2006. If the drought had continued, the Amazon rainfall meltdown scenario could have begun.

Even though the forest was very dry in the south, the goal is still to accomplish 2000 mm of rainfall over the entire rainforest for the year. Using the Language to Nature Method, the differences in current rainfall amounts in the south will be made up before the year is completed to account for the present deficits.

Also, researchers are finding that rainforests are more dependent on light than rain, enduring several months of dry season by tapping water deep in the soil through their long roots. The greener forests capture more sunlight, absorb more carbon dioxide, and evaporate more water during the dry season compared to the wet season, according to a report by Professor Ranga Myneni of Boston University. It would seem that the dry season is an essential part of the health of the Amazon Rainforest.

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