Record Fires in the Amazon Rain Forest

[Matted Joybeard]

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/blazes-brazils-amazon-off-record-start-2024-firefighting-budget-cut-2024-05-20/

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first four months of the year, with the environmental workers union on Monday placing partial blame on lower government spending on firefighting.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has staked his international reputation on protecting the Amazon rainforest and restoring Brazil as a leader on climate policy.

The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, is vital to curbing catastrophic global warming because of the vast amount of greenhouse gas it absorbs.
A record drought in the Amazon rainforest region, driven by the El Nino climate phenomenon and global warming, has helped contribute to dry conditions fueling fires this year.

More than 12,000 square kilometers (4,633 square miles) of the Brazil's Amazon rainforest burned between January and April, the most in over two decades of data, according to Brazil's space research agency Inpe. That's an area larger than Qatar, or nearly the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

Fires in the Amazon generally do not occur naturally but are ignited by people, often seeking to clear land for agriculture.

 

[mudwhistle]

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/blazes-brazils-amazon-off-record-start-2024-firefighting-budget-cut-2024-05-20/

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first four months of the year, with the environmental workers union on Monday placing partial blame on lower government spending on firefighting.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has staked his international reputation on protecting the Amazon rainforest and restoring Brazil as a leader on climate policy.

The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, is vital to curbing catastrophic global warming because of the vast amount of greenhouse gas it absorbs.
A record drought in the Amazon rainforest region, driven by the El Nino climate phenomenon and global warming, has helped contribute to dry conditions fueling fires this year.

More than 12,000 square kilometers (4,633 square miles) of the Brazil's Amazon rainforest burned between January and April, the most in over two decades of data, according to Brazil's space research agency Inpe. That's an area larger than Qatar, or nearly the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

Fires in the Amazon generally do not occur naturally but are ignited by people, often seeking to clear land for agriculture.

Nah.....It's just commies paying the homeless to set fires like they did in Canada last year and India this year.

 

[ReinyDays]

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/blazes-brazils-amazon-off-record-start-2024-firefighting-budget-cut-2024-05-20/

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first four months of the year, with the environmental workers union on Monday placing partial blame on lower government spending on firefighting.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has staked his international reputation on protecting the Amazon rainforest and restoring Brazil as a leader on climate policy.

The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, is vital to curbing catastrophic global warming because of the vast amount of greenhouse gas it absorbs.
A record drought in the Amazon rainforest region, driven by the El Nino climate phenomenon and global warming, has helped contribute to dry conditions fueling fires this year.

More than 12,000 square kilometers (4,633 square miles) of the Brazil's Amazon rainforest burned between January and April, the most in over two decades of data, according to Brazil's space research agency Inpe. That's an area larger than Qatar, or nearly the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

Fires in the Amazon generally do not occur naturally but are ignited by people, often seeking to clear land for agriculture.

The OP has added zero information ... the text in the post is strictly copy/paste from the article ... with no citations ... "the most in two decades of data" ... ha ha ha ha ha ha ... great example on how to lie with statistics ... only the past 20 years complies with the claim, and I do remember 30 years ago vast plumbs of smoke and ash all over South America in the weather satellite photos ...

The article claims all these tropical forest fires are unnatural ... I know we burned the jungle at the beginning of dry season in Panama, Air Force bases and trees are a bad mix so we torched the damned environment ... our job was to dump napalm on Communists ...

California wildfires are natural ... burning off the old trees opens the canopy for new trees to grow ... that's carbon-neutral, what burns is reabsorbed when the canopy returns ... human harvest of these trees encapsulates the carbon in our buildings and then our landfills, Georgia/Pacific is carbon negative !!! ... love a treecutter ...

El Nino is weather ... climatology tries to average out those effects ... and 100-year averages is bare minimum ... it's not just El Nino we're trying to average out ... (NB - Wikipedia offers over 20 different definitions of average, pick-and-choose which one supports your claims) ...

 

[JohnDB]

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/blazes-brazils-amazon-off-record-start-2024-firefighting-budget-cut-2024-05-20/

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first four months of the year, with the environmental workers union on Monday placing partial blame on lower government spending on firefighting.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has staked his international reputation on protecting the Amazon rainforest and restoring Brazil as a leader on climate policy.

The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, is vital to curbing catastrophic global warming because of the vast amount of greenhouse gas it absorbs.
A record drought in the Amazon rainforest region, driven by the El Nino climate phenomenon and global warming, has helped contribute to dry conditions fueling fires this year.

More than 12,000 square kilometers (4,633 square miles) of the Brazil's Amazon rainforest burned between January and April, the most in over two decades of data, according to Brazil's space research agency Inpe. That's an area larger than Qatar, or nearly the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

Fires in the Amazon generally do not occur naturally but are ignited by people, often seeking to clear land for agriculture.

The past 4 years of drought had nothing to do with it eh?

 

[Matted Joybeard]

The past 4 years of drought had nothing to do with it eh?

Fires in the Amazon generally do not occur naturally but are ignited by people, often seeking to clear land for agriculture.

 

[Crick]

Nah.....It's just commies paying the homeless to set fires like they did in Canada last year and India this year.

What evidence do you have supporting that charge?

 

[JohnDB]

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/blazes-brazils-amazon-off-record-start-2024-firefighting-budget-cut-2024-05-20/

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first four months of the year, with the environmental workers union on Monday placing partial blame on lower government spending on firefighting.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has staked his international reputation on protecting the Amazon rainforest and restoring Brazil as a leader on climate policy.

The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, is vital to curbing catastrophic global warming because of the vast amount of greenhouse gas it absorbs.
A record drought in the Amazon rainforest region, driven by the El Nino climate phenomenon and global warming, has helped contribute to dry conditions fueling fires this year.

More than 12,000 square kilometers (4,633 square miles) of the Brazil's Amazon rainforest burned between January and April, the most in over two decades of data, according to Brazil's space research agency Inpe. That's an area larger than Qatar, or nearly the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

Fires in the Amazon generally do not occur naturally but are ignited by people, often seeking to clear land for agriculture.

The past 4 years of drought had nothing to do with it eh?

Fires in the Amazon generally do not occur naturally but are ignited by people, often seeking to clear land for agriculture.

When it rains every day at least once if not twice...it's a rainforest....fires are very very difficult to start.
If it doesn't rain for weeks it's a drought. Fires then can be lit.