Amazon rainforest fires have an affect on climate change

[Anonymous]

HOLD THE PHONE!!



https://www.foxnews.com/science/amazon-fires-are-not-burning-earths-lungs">Amazon fires are not exactly burning 'Earth's lungs,' experts say



1. Shanan Peters, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, imagined what would happen if we burned every forest, blade of grass, bacteria and bird on Earth -- basically everything except humans -- in a presentation slide at a scientific convention in June.



""After such a catastrophic scenario, the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere dropped from 20.9 percent to 20.4 percent, acording to The Atlantic.""



"Virtually no change," Peters said. "Generations of humans would live out their lives, breathing the air around them, probably struggling to find food, but not worried about their next breath."

Although the fires pose a danger to the massively biodiverse area, some experts are now offering another view, saying they do not threaten the planet's oxygen supply.





2. According to Scott Denning, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, most of the oxygen that gets produced by photosynthesis each year is consumed by fires and living organisms, with trees shedding dead leaves and twigs that in turn end up feeding insects and microbes.



""Forest plants produce lots of oxygen, and forest microbes consume a lot of oxygen. As a result, net production of oxygen by forests — and indeed, all land plants — is very close to zero,"" Denning explained on Tuesday in a Scientific American essay





cc People are so easily duped ... I suspect in areas where they WANT to be duped

BALLSONARO posted about this yesterday..



I'm one of those people who was duped.

[Anonymous]

HOLD THE PHONE!!



https://www.foxnews.com/science/amazon-fires-are-not-burning-earths-lungs">Amazon fires are not exactly burning 'Earth's lungs,' experts say



1. Shanan Peters, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, imagined what would happen if we burned every forest, blade of grass, bacteria and bird on Earth -- basically everything except humans -- in a presentation slide at a scientific convention in June.



""After such a catastrophic scenario, the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere dropped from 20.9 percent to 20.4 percent, acording to The Atlantic.""



"Virtually no change," Peters said. "Generations of humans would live out their lives, breathing the air around them, probably struggling to find food, but not worried about their next breath."

Although the fires pose a danger to the massively biodiverse area, some experts are now offering another view, saying they do not threaten the planet's oxygen supply.





2. According to Scott Denning, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, most of the oxygen that gets produced by photosynthesis each year is consumed by fires and living organisms, with trees shedding dead leaves and twigs that in turn end up feeding insects and microbes.



""Forest plants produce lots of oxygen, and forest microbes consume a lot of oxygen. As a result, net production of oxygen by forests — and indeed, all land plants — is very close to zero,"" Denning explained on Tuesday in a Scientific American essay





cc People are so easily duped ... I suspect in areas where they WANT to be duped

They are still going to say the fires threaten the world's oxygen and it's Bolsonaro's fault.

[Rancidmilko]

If this doesn't debunk this fucking bullshit, nothing else will





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[Anonymous]

If this doesn't debunk this fucking bullshit, nothing else will





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Lotus is as sharp as a bag of wet sponges. It aint interested in facts.

[Anonymous]

If this doesn't debunk this fucking bullshit, nothing else will





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I don't usually post in the Politics section on SG..



Frankly, I find it silly..



CONS are more likely to be sexual deviants....pure stupidity.

[Anonymous]

HOLD THE PHONE!!



https://www.foxnews.com/science/amazon-fires-are-not-burning-earths-lungs">Amazon fires are not exactly burning 'Earth's lungs,' experts say



1. Shanan Peters, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, imagined what would happen if we burned every forest, blade of grass, bacteria and bird on Earth -- basically everything except humans -- in a presentation slide at a scientific convention in June.



""After such a catastrophic scenario, the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere dropped from 20.9 percent to 20.4 percent, acording to The Atlantic.""



"Virtually no change," Peters said. "Generations of humans would live out their lives, breathing the air around them, probably struggling to find food, but not worried about their next breath."

Although the fires pose a danger to the massively biodiverse area, some experts are now offering another view, saying they do not threaten the planet's oxygen supply.





2. According to Scott Denning, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, most of the oxygen that gets produced by photosynthesis each year is consumed by fires and living organisms, with trees shedding dead leaves and twigs that in turn end up feeding insects and microbes.



""Forest plants produce lots of oxygen, and forest microbes consume a lot of oxygen. As a result, net production of oxygen by forests — and indeed, all land plants — is very close to zero,"" Denning explained on Tuesday in a Scientific American essay





cc People are so easily duped ... I suspect in areas where they WANT to be duped

I saw a panel of "experts" on CBC two days ago saying the exact opposite.

[Rancidmilko]

One thing they keep saying, it would be hard to destroy the Amazon. And if left alone, it will be close to original state in 50 years. You can cut, but there's always more forest ahead. And the thing is, forests grow back. With the help of man, it could be even faster.



And the place is so wet, fires don't burn. The forest is so dense and think, only the low bushes and grasses burn.



And then there's the heavy downpours almost year round.



There's so much misinformation and bullshit coming from the media, it's beyond disgusting.



Leftism and everything associated with it is a fucking cancer that grows on lies, deceit and scumbaggery.

[Anonymous]

One thing they keep saying, it would be hard to destroy the Amazon. And if left alone, it will be close to original state in 50 years. You can cut, but there's always more forest ahead. And the thing is, forests grow back. With the help of man, it could be even faster.



And the place is so wet, fires don't burn. The forest is so dense and think, only the low bushes and grasses burn.



And then there's the heavy downpours almost year round.



There's so much misinformation and bullshit coming from the media, it's beyond disgusting.



Leftism and everything associated with it is a fucking cancer that grows on lies, deceit and scumbaggery.

We are lead to believe the Amazon is on life support.

[Rancidmilko]

We are lead to believe the Amazon is on life support.

That's what happening today, the media doesn't care, they want viewers and they have their agenda



If you start talking about punishing them for shit like this, they accuse you of censorship



Just like this garbage, look:



https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-lawrence-odonnell-apologizes-retracts-story">https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-law ... acts-story">https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-lawrence-odonnell-apologizes-retracts-story



They don't even care, screw the sources, screw checking them, just run the damn thing and if it doesn't hold water, make a little retraction and prepare the next lie



And one thing I tell, this is getting tiresome. In Brazil, Globo Network, the biggest national media conglomerate over here, their news reporters are constantly being assaulted on the streets, people cursing on them.



People are getting sick of it all, they are starting to see over the bullshit and lies. They see one thing on the TV and then they see someone presenting them real data on the Internet. They create something an when you check older sources, none of it is true, just like the wildfire charts I posted.



Damn, I remember it myself, 2002, they lost more that year than ever but because that scumbag Lula was in charge, people said nothing.

[Anonymous]

We are lead to believe the Amazon is on life support.

That's what happening today, the media doesn't care, they want viewers and they have their agenda



If you start talking about punishing them for shit like this, they accuse you of censorship



Just like this garbage, look:



https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-lawrence-odonnell-apologizes-retracts-story">https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-law ... acts-story">https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-lawrence-odonnell-apologizes-retracts-story



They don't even care, screw the sources, screw checking them, just run the damn thing and if it doesn't hold water, make a little retraction and prepare the next lie



And one thing I tell, this is getting tiresome. In Brazil, Globo Network, the biggest national media conglomerate over here, their news reporters are constantly being assaulted on the streets, people cursing on them.



People are getting sick of it all, they are starting to see over the bullshit and lies. They see one thing on the TV and then they see someone presenting them real data on the Internet. They create something an when you check older sources, none of it is true, just like the wildfire charts I posted.



Damn, I remember it myself, 2002, they lost more that year than ever but because that scumbag Lula was in charge, people said nothing.

The fires in the Amazon came up at work yesterday..



Some people are very worried..



Thanks to what you and cc posted, I'll tell them to relax.

[Rancidmilko]

[Anonymous]

[cc]

LOL^^





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Back in November 1991 Toronto Sun photo journalist Stan Behal and I travelled around Brazil cataloguing the threat to the Amazon rain forest from a host of stressors, most notably poverty, ranching, freelance gold mining, mining of other minerals, subsistence agriculture, large-scale agriculture, forestry and forest fires.



The narrative back then was that the "lungs of the world are burning!" Sound familiar?



"The lungs of the Earth are in flames," wrote actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Instagram last Thursday.



"The Amazon rain forest — the lungs which produce 20 per cent of our planet's oxygen — is on fire," tweeted French President Emanuel Macron, on the same day.



The Twittersphere was ablaze with concern for Mother Earth's lungs and afire with stinging criticism of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, blaming him, almost entirely, for the destruction.



Political posturing aside, how accurate is the alarm expressed by Macron, the other G7 leaders, DiCaprio, Madonna and others?



The New York Times looked into the matter.



The photo Macron and DiCaprio shared is apparently more than 20 years old. The photo Madonna shared is more than 30. Other celebrities shared photos of forests burning in India and Sweden.



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Michael Shellenberger — a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment" — published a compelling piece Monday in Forbes magazine debunking Macron, DiCaprio and the G7.



"I was curious to hear what one of the world's leading Amazon forest experts, Dan Nepstad, had to say about the 'lungs' claim," writes Shellenberger.



"'It's bullshit,'" Nepstad said. "'There's no science behind that. The Amazon produces a lot of oxygen but it uses the same amount of oxygen through respiration so it's a wash.'"



In the 16-page report I wrote in January 1992, entitled Paradise Lost: Brazil's disappearing rain forest," experts predicted that the world's largest rainforest, fed by the world's largest river and home to the world's richest and most diverse ecosystem "could altogether disappear by the middle of the next century if the present rate of destruction continues."



Thankfully, that dire prediction from 27 years ago isn't expected to materialize — not even close. About 20 per cent of the Amazon forest has been cut down or burned and the rate of destruction has slowed considerably. In other words, 80 per cent of the Amazon forest remains intact.



Surprise, Surprise!! .. None of these facts were mentioned by our world's leaders.





Those who fell for it all, don't feel alone, the "brilliant"  :eyebrow: Macron and our child leader also glommed on and were also suckered by lowlife hollywood egotistic attention whoring  nothings

... then picked up and amplified by most of a press that o longer produces news, rather produces ONLY agenda

[Anonymous]

Earthslungs makes a cute little hashtag.

[Anonymous]

Fires are raging in the Bolivian rainforest too. Why aren't international progs blaming that country's leadership.