Times (UK): The Amazonian rainforest is likely to suffer catastrophic damage even with the lowest temperature rises forecast under climate change, researchers have found. Damage will be so severe that it will cause irreversible changes to the world’s weather patterns, which would be expected to bring more storms, floods and heatwaves to Britain. Up to 40 per cent of the rainforest will be lost if temperature rises are restricted to 2C, which most climatologists regard as the least that can …