July 1, 2007 - Fires in Central Africa
Posted on 07/02/2007 10:11:05 AM PDT by Tarpon
Here is the latest image showing the CO2 emissions, well not directly but indirectly, caused by humans doing their agricultural burning. Since this is the week, may as well start it on the right foot, exposing the hoax. If it weren't a hoax, would these Live Earth people be singing the praises of this practice, or would they be trying to stop it. This does appear to be generating much more greenhouse gas that cars, I doubt even LA is this polluted -- An yes we have had our share of brush fires, and I know how bad the choking smoke is first hand.
The agricultural burning season continued in central Africa in late June 2007. During the burning season, people use fire to clear brush and cropland, to drive livestock and game, and to renew pasture grasses. This image of fires in the heart of Africa was captured by the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite on June 24, 2007. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fires—hundreds of them—are marked with red dots. Though it is not necessarily immediately hazardous, such large-scale burning can have a strong impact on weather, climate, human health, and natural resources.The countries show are, from top left in roughly clockwise order: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.
Countries on fire doesn't even twitch the globull warming loons meter, I wonder why that is?
One year here in Austin, Texas we did not see the sun for weeks because of the agricultural fires coming from Mexico and points south. At one point our streetlights kicked on at noon.
How does one ‘see’ CO2 emissions? Is this photo of infrared or something else?
About 5 years ago Mexico was doing so much burning that the smoke drifted up here. It was so bad we had to drive with headlights on in the middle of the day and could barely breath in our houses for days and days. Of course, being pollution from Mexico made it all ok.
Ah, should have read the replies as I mentioned the same. It was indeed horrible.
“Biomass burning” - almost all of it the result of human activity - is responsible for around 40% of global CO2 release to the atmosphere: .
See, for example:
http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/biomass_burn/biomass.html
Exactly!
It is kind of like that big twelve(?) banger coal plant Mexico has out there near Big Bend that I don’t think even has a scrubber for the employee’s toilet. You are just not supposed to notice it.
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