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A bit more info on the baobab die off. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/giant-african-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adansonia_grandidieri Heart breaking.

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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.

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

> The soil moisture is falling

You just restated what I said. What am I wrong about?

You overlooked that the warming is causing the soil moisture to decline which is causing the trees to die off.

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?

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