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A bit more info on the baobab die off. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/giant-african-baobab-trees-die-suddenly-after-thousands-of-years https://ww

• debacle 5y ago
  The trees are rotting from the inside. That's a complex issue and doesn't sound like it's from warming. Old live oaks can suffer a similar fate, and the issue is usually caused by stress on the tree impacting the tree's immune system. Trees are really good at managing stress from heat, however stress from moisture much less so.
  • blondie9x 5y ago
    You're wrong. They rot from the inside as they die. The soil moisture is falling and the trees can't store enough water. The insides die first. Stress comes from climate change. Imagine in extreme conditions with high variance in water availability or temperature shifts how an organism will survive. This is part of the larger Holocene extinction humans are causing now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
    • debacle 5y ago
      > The soil moisture is falling You just restated what I said. What am I wrong about?
      • blondie9x 5y ago
        You overlooked that the warming is causing the soil moisture to decline which is causing the trees to die off.
• mark-r 5y ago
  My first thought when seeing the Baobob picture was I wonder if you can still travel to see them before they're gone? My second thought was how much CO2 would such a trip generate?