Without the forest pumping so much water into the air, rainforests wouldn't be as rainy. And without so much rain, the forest couldn't pump so much water into the air.

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Land Surface Temperature - Image by: Reto Stockli, NASA's Earth Observatory Team http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MOD11C1_M_LSTDA

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