5 things the media won't tell you about the Amazon fires

Accuweather ^ | August 23, 2019 | Jesse Ferrell

[Right Wing Assault]

5 things the media won't tell you about the Amazon fires

By Jesse Ferrell,

UPDATE: An astute reader pointed out that my quote below from a NASA website was changed on their end. The Google Cache of their page, which contained my quote, has been changed from "slightly below average" to "close to average" with no explanation of that revision. It would be nice to know if the data has changed, or it was a mistake.

GlobalFireData Graph

However, there is no average given, so I can't say whether it's above or below average. The data goes back to 2003, which is not far enough to make any climate assumptions, but they note that the source of the data changed in 2016, so records before then may not be comparable.

In summary, other than changing their quote below, their revision does not reject any of the points below. In fact, I've added an update below where a New York Times reporter confirms what I had suspected about what's actually burning.

NASA Screenshot

Their source remains the Global Fire Emissions Database. Their "Cumulative Fire Counts Totals" (for the Amazon) so far in 2019 is about in the middle of the graph as of yesterday (August 22). It's below 2016 and above 2017 and 2018.

However, there is no average given, so I can't say whether it's above or below average. The data goes back to 2003, which is not far enough to make any climate assumptions, but they note that the source of the data changed in 2016, so records before then may not be comparable.

In summary, other than changing their quote below, their revision does not reject any of the points below. In fact, ...

End of excerpt. Must see the source which has several images.

[TBP]

I blame environmentalists.