McDowell said
“Do we predict all trees are going to die? Maybe it’s 80 percent,” he said. “The bottom line is we can’t just limit CO2 emissions. We have to stop carbon emissions totally. It’s good our governments are making progress, but it’s just a drop in the bucket.”
Amy Bennett with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the University of New Mexico and Craig Allen from the U.S. Geological Survey were also authors of the paper.