text: This piece is typical of thousands of other news stories about calamities in the Amazon that are immediately blamed on global warming. Other headlines quickly found include Ocean Warming - Not El Nio - Drove Severe Amazon Drought in 2005 or Amazon Droughts Will Accelerate Global Warming or Amazon Could Shrink by 85% due to Climate Change, Scientists Say. Notice that climate change can cause droughts and floods in the Amazon PLUS droughts in the Amazon can cause global warming (by eliminating trees that could uptake atmospheric carbon dioxide). Throughout many of these stories, the words delicate and irreversible are used over and over.