Once upon a time before 1500 there were fires in Amazonia every year as the indigenes burned off the underbrush for the useful trees to grow better and the game animals to increase. It was like that all over North America, too. The American bison was once an Eastern woodland animal.
Great find!
Surprising CNN would call out other progressives...not that one need be progressive to hope they get some rain sooner than later.
Now burning, the McKinley Fire, which has spread to more than 4,300 acres in Alaska, has destroyed at least 80 structures so far, the Alaska Division of Forestry reported Wednesday morning.
48 large fires are actively burning in 12 states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Alaska is battling eight wildfires; Texas 7; Arizona and Idaho six each; Montana and Utah five each; Oregon and Washington three each; New Mexico two; and California, Oklahoma and Wyoming one each.
Wldfires are a normal part of life in Alaskan forests. While the state is experiencing an “extreme” fire season this year, with over 2.5 million acres burned, the size of the fires is still well short of the record set in 2004 – 6.5 million acres.
The number of major fire years, in which more than a million acres burned, has also increased in Alaska, says Rupp. Although there were only eight major fire years from 1950 to 1989, from 1990 to 2018 there were 11 years in which more than a million acres burned.
Fire seasons that see the burning of a million acres are not unusual,“What has been changing is the frequency and the magnitude of these fires.”
For comparison, Connecticut is about 3.5 million acres and Massachusetts is about 6.7 million acres.
I just read several articles on the Amazon fires. They are all written for emotional impact with distortion.
For example, to make the fire appear larger they talk about smoke area or affected area, not fire area
Who pays the Carbon Tax?
Reminds me of when ANWR was a big issue for the enviros. At least 90% of the photos in the media were not of ANWR. Most were of the Brooks Range. Shoot, I even saw one NY Slimes story that put a photo of Mt. McKinley on their ANWR story. Anything for the cause, ethics be damned.
Just the unexplored part of the Amazon is bigger that all of India.
Look at the wood land areas that border carefully landscaped subdivisions. The subs contribute more oxygen to the atmosphere than the area woods..........
Are these the areas we used to call "jungle" before the man made global warming hoax?