Under extreme deforestation scenarios, disappearance of the Amazon rainforest would reduce
rainfall in the American Midwest, Northwest and South at key growing times, while increasing
winter precipitation
along the eastern seaboard.
«Two thirds of the 23 climate models used to inform Australian projections agree that
rainfall will decrease in southern areas (for both the annual average and in
winter), in southern and eastern areas in spring, and
along the west coast in autumn (CSIRO and BoM 2007).