This NASA image shows fires raging just as strongly in sub-Saharan Africa as in the Amazon rainforest in South America, where the fires have attracted global attention
Al Jazeera: More fires burning in Angola and Congo than in the Amazon: Maps
Brazil is the third worst-affected region by recent wildfires after two countries in Central Africa.
Blazes burning in the Amazon have put heat on the environmental policies of President Jair Bolsonaro, but Brazil is actually third in the world in wildfires over the last 48 hours, according to MODIS satellite data analyzed by Weather Source.
Weather Source has recorded 6,902 fires in Angola over the past 48 hours, compared to 3,395 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 2,127 in Brazil. It’s not an uncommon phenomenon for Central Africa.
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More News On The Wildfires In Africa
Amazon fires: Angola and DR Congo 'have more blazes' -- BBC
'The forest is also burning in Africa': President Macron pledges to help fight infernos blazing across hundreds of miles from Angola to Madagascar after world's leaders vowed to tackle blazes in the Amazon -- Daily Mail
African forest fires in spotlight after Amazon outcry -- AFP
Climate crisis: More fires burning across central Africa than Amazon as global deforestation rates approach record high -- The Independent
NASA Images Show Africa Has Five Times More Wildfires Burning Than The Amazon—Here's Why They're Different -- Newsweek
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The topic was the fires on Africa and South America and the comparison of the grandstanding and hypocritical responses by liberal politicians.
Pro-Tip: Some of those fires in Brasil seen by satellite are purposeful agricultural fires set to clear sugar cane field for harvest.
Sugar cane burning in Brazil: respiratory health effects
Health risks due to pre-harvesting sugarcane burning in São Paulo State, Brazil
During part of the year, you do not hang out laundry to dry. Just saying.
It rains ash like clockwork.
Brazil sugarcane mills agree to end burning by '17
ReplyDelete"Cane farmers "burn off" prior to harvesting at a cane farm"
"The protocol is not mandatory ..."
There is a good picture of a cane fire.
The fire clears the dead leaves leaving just the stalk. It give the agricultural workers a well defined target. For you non-STEM types, it means that the leaves don't get in the way and deflect or cushion the strike.
It also clear out poisonous snakes and spiders protecting the workers. But libs typically do not care about people they consider peons until election day.
If they do not burn I expect more worker injuries or mechanization putting the lower rungs of society out of work. Thx libtards!
"The cane burning ban already is ahead of the curve in Sao Paulo state, where more than 40 percent of the harvest is mechanized"
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