Posted on 08/22/2019 10:34:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Social media helped increase coverage of the wildfires, but it's also contributing to misinformation.
There's no question that several parts of the Amazon rainforest are on fire, and humans are likely the cause of the blazes.
In Brazil alone, there are 80% more fires in 2019 than there were last year, according to the country's space research center. More than half of the fires in Brazil are in its Amazon region.
Satellite images are helping show just how many fires there are, and how much of their smoke has spread across the country.
But photos on social media are conflating the current crisis with previous fires.
One such photo -- one of the most-shared photos on social media -- shows a lush forest with a massive wall of smoke billowing from a fire.
Musical artist and actor Jaden Smith shared the image on his Instagram, where it garnered over a million likes. YouTube celebrity Logan Paul shared the image on Twitter, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Once upon a time before 1500 there were fires in Amazonia every year as the indigenes burned off the underbrush for the useful trees to grow better and the game animals to increase. It was like that all over North America, too. The American bison was once an Eastern woodland animal.
Great find!
Now we have a bunch of virtue signaling morons who a) have never actually seen the Amazon and never will, and b) don’t know that forests grow back after fires.
Surprising CNN would call out other progressives...not that one need be progressive to hope they get some rain sooner than later.
[[b) don’t know that forests grow back after fires.]]
Whaa whaaa whaaat? But CNN tells me that the damage is permanent lol (No, i don’t actually watch CNN lol)
Now burning, the McKinley Fire, which has spread to more than 4,300 acres in Alaska, has destroyed at least 80 structures so far, the Alaska Division of Forestry reported Wednesday morning.
48 large fires are actively burning in 12 states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Alaska is battling eight wildfires; Texas 7; Arizona and Idaho six each; Montana and Utah five each; Oregon and Washington three each; New Mexico two; and California, Oklahoma and Wyoming one each.
Wldfires are a normal part of life in Alaskan forests. While the state is experiencing an “extreme” fire season this year, with over 2.5 million acres burned, the size of the fires is still well short of the record set in 2004 – 6.5 million acres.
The number of major fire years, in which more than a million acres burned, has also increased in Alaska, says Rupp. Although there were only eight major fire years from 1950 to 1989, from 1990 to 2018 there were 11 years in which more than a million acres burned.
Fire seasons that see the burning of a million acres are not unusual,“What has been changing is the frequency and the magnitude of these fires.”
For comparison, Connecticut is about 3.5 million acres and Massachusetts is about 6.7 million acres.
More than 13.5 million acres of Siberia are ablaze too.
I just read several articles on the Amazon fires. They are all written for emotional impact with distortion.
For example, to make the fire appear larger they talk about smoke area or affected area, not fire area
Who pays the Carbon Tax?
Reminds me of when ANWR was a big issue for the enviros. At least 90% of the photos in the media were not of ANWR. Most were of the Brooks Range. Shoot, I even saw one NY Slimes story that put a photo of Mt. McKinley on their ANWR story. Anything for the cause, ethics be damned.
Where's "Getting Gay With Kids" when we need them?
Doo-doo-doo, da-da-do-do-wow!
There's a place called the rainforest that truly sucks ass
Let's knock it all down and get rid of it fast
You say 'save the rainforest', but what do you know?
You've never been to the rainforest before!
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To tell you things you might not like to hear
You only fight these causes 'cos caring sells
All you activists can go .... yourselves.
Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
There'll be no more rainforests left in the entire world..
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To spread the word, and bring you cheer
Getting Gay with Kids is here
Lets knock down the rainforest, whaddaya say?
Its totally gay, it's totally gay
Just the unexplored part of the Amazon is bigger that all of India.
Look at the wood land areas that border carefully landscaped subdivisions. The subs contribute more oxygen to the atmosphere than the area woods..........
Forest and grassland fires along with volcano emissions are two of the major contributors to the 95% of the earth producing CO2 emissions on this planet. Man only contributes approx. 5%.........
Looks bad....do Scarlett, Rhett, Melanie and the baby make it out safe?
They’re gone with the wind...............
Are these the areas we used to call "jungle" before the man made global warming hoax?
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