Pants-of-dog wrote:It must have been someone else who claimed that an “analysis of NASA satellite data last week indicated that the total fire activity in 2019 across the Amazon, not just Brazil, is close to the average when compared with a longer 15 year period”.
It actually was someone else, it was the bbc news quoting NASA.
And I love how you took it out of context by the editing the quote, but that's the level of honesty we've all come to expect from you.
Here's the full quote from NASA:
As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.) Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/image ... -in-brazilSo there are a lot more fires
in Brazil this year, but for the whole of the Amazon it's only slightly above average.
No one claimed that this particular symptom of the ongoing environmental devastation is the one that will end it all.
BBC Newsnight told everyone "our lungs are on fire".
The fake news has definitely been hyping and scaremongering the shit out of this.
he was also very idealistic and did not take into account that neo-liberals would destroy our environment for a buck.
He wasn't naive at all, he just wasn't a malthusian crank.