California’s Forests Have Become Climate Polluters https://t.co/oEHpxisqAr via @ClimateCentral April 2015

— mapping dgraph (@mappingdgraph) January 11, 2016

"A new study has shown that greenhouse gases are billowing out of the state’s forests faster than they are being sucked back in, with unnaturally intense wildfires mostly to blame."

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Scientists say climate change could cause a ‘massive’ tree die-off in the U.S. Southwest https://t.co/Y9bSLasWJZ via @washingtonpost

— ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral) December 22, 2015

"In a troubling new study just out in Nature Climate Change, a group of researchers says that a warming climate could trigger a “massive” dieoff of coniferous trees, such as junipers and piñon pines, in the U.S. southwest sometime this century."

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What Global Warming Means for Old, Tall Trees / May 20 2015

'The researchers found that the plants that were most likely to survive were short plants with smaller leaf area. Tall trees with large leaf area, on the other hand, were the most likely to die.

“Global warming is global, and all vascular plants obey Darcy’s law,” Nathan McDowell, co-author of the study, told ThinkProgress. “The implications of this is the whole world, anywhere there is plants.”'

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A new study shows that massive #tree die off, may actually reduce #water availability. https://t.co/8dsIqiVszP

— CA Forestry Assn (@CalForests) December 16, 2015