This is a very helpful letter from 19 respected Amazon scientists that try to put this "controversy" in perpective (as I discussed here: http://tinyurl.com/yfpc9lo).

So the Amazon rainforests aren’t totally “out of the woods” or guaranteed to “go up in smoke”, but they are still very susceptible to dieback due to global warming as these respected scientists highlighted.

I for one would rather not risk losing an area of rainforest larger than the continental U.S. because some ill-cited peer reviewed studies or new study raised some uncertainty. As my colleague has pointed out (here and here) there are plenty of facts on-the-ground that point us clearly towards the need to reduce our global warming pollution. The Amazon and the planet aren’t worth such a risky bet.