Posted on 08/23/2019 7:23:09 PM PDT by 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.
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Good report indeed - if you would like to flesh it out a bit with the politics of it, here is some feedback from a Brazilian:
https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/08/brazilian-readers-defend-bolsonaro-.html
This is the result of slash and burn farming.
It’s a rain forrest. Plants grow back...Quickly.
Exactly.
Forests burn. If they don’t burn they rot and burn later, bigger and faster.
Do you happen to have the rest of the article? The link is giving me a 404 error, and Google and the Wayback Machine appear to have pulled the cached version.
Thank you; that link works for me.
or some eco terrorists wanting to push out Brazil’s “mini Trump”
The gloBALISTS want to colonize Brazil and this president is an impediment to their agenda, so now the G7 with Macron are attacking him.
Indeed, a lot of this is peat fire. But the ecowackos say peat has many endangered critters. So no peat harvesting for fuel. THe result is a minute lightning strike on dry peat like around Moscow, and you have peat fires uncontrolled all over the place killing all the animals both in trees and in the peat soil...
That's weird. I just clicked on the link in my post just now and it worked for me. Maybe a moderator fixed it?
Except the soil is poor and thin.
The fires also serve to rid the fields of rats and poisonous snakes....
Plants that can tolerate the dry season grow back, but the dense rainforest takes a long time to grow back. Where they studied it in India it took 5-10 years to get brushy but 25-75 years for the shade trees.
I thought because of the quick decay, the soil would be extremely fertile. That’s amazing.
I live in a super humid, hot, sunny environment where, if you don’t weed, your house will be covered with vines within a week.
There are manufactured parts of the soil (terra preta) which are extremely fertile and mark were aboriginal villages, towns and cities were once or are now existing.
No one has ever discovered how this soil was created or when. The composition is known but the formula is unknown.
Actually, no. The nutrients in the Amazon rainforest soil are mostly near the surface, and the shallow roots of most trees there reflects that. Farmers only get a season or two out of the soil, then its shot.
That is odd. I’m not sure what the explanation is, but the version of the link in #8 does work for me. Thanks for sharing this article.
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