Delingpole: Amazon Fires.....#FAKE NEW.....

Breitbart ^ | 8/26/19 | James Delingpole

[chiller]

All this week, the mainstream media have been trying to scare you with heartrending tales of burning Amazonia — a conflagration the like of which we have never seen before. Supposedly…But almost everything you have read or heard about the Amazon fires in the mainstream media is #FakeNews....

The fires are mainly on agricultural land – not virgin rain forest…

There is nothing abnormal about this fire season

Even NASA admits this

The Amazon rainforest does NOT produce 20 per cent of the world’s oxygen

[gundog]

No, but they’d kill you and I to save it. Remember that.

[TalonDJ]

“The amazon rain forest is at least 130,000 years old”

Except the parts that contained cities and farmland just a few hundred years ago and have been recently detected by satellites. SURPRISE! Farmland CAN turn back into rainforest.

[PIF]

No surprise - early Spanish explorers reported cities of 100s of thousands - all of which were wiped out by the diseases of the explorers - death toll was estimated to be in the millions. All those ancient cities have returned to rain forest leaving only patches of terra preta to mark were they once existed.

[hal ogen]

I believe President Trump caused these fires by purposefully flying AF1 low over the rainforest with its afterburners blazing!!! Impeach now!

[vetvetdoug]

I just read a meme that said that US farmers cultivating corn put more oxygen into the atmosphere than three Amazon Rain forests.

[rktman]

Without hesitation either.

[gundog]

I think impulsive, violent over-reaction is their default setting. They don’t trust themselves with firearms, and think we can’t be trusted with them either.

[Hot Tabasco]

In Honduras the sugar cane farmers set fire to their fields just prior to harvesting in order to eliminate the undergrowth and leaves from the canes.

The fire also drives out the rats and poisonous snakes...........

Once the fires are done, the sugar plants send in their workers who cut down the cane stalks by hand with their machetes........

[chiller]

I've heard that farmers annually burn off the undergrowth, and judging from the nets coverage, that's what's happening. An occasional palm tree flares and burns, but there is no thick rain forest.....mostly grasses, long ago cleared for planting or grazing.

1ST RULE:

BELIEVE NOTHING YOU SEE FROM MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

[chiller]

Confirming: first ABC, now CBS ...showing cleared grassy areas burning.

[minnesota_bound]

But I saw a polar bear in that rain forest and it now has lost it’s home!!!.....

[DUMBGRUNT]

USA WILD FIRES: 8.8 million acres
https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires
2018: In 2018 there were 58,083 wildfires, compared with 71,499 wildfires in the same period in 2017, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. About 8.8 million acres were burned in the 2018 period, compared with 10 million in 2017.

Amazon fires this year 851,200 acres (640/ sq mile)
More than 1,330 square miles of the Amazon rainforest have been lost since January,
according to The New York Times.3 days ago