Thread by @ArmonRaE

@EmmanuelMacron The image on the left shows a fire from 1989, and the image on the right has been online since at least 2012. A number of other outdated and unrelated photographs have also been circulated as if they depicted the 2019 #AmazonFires.
snopes.com/fact-check/ama…

@EmmanuelMacron Plankton that are plants, known as #phytoplankton, grow and get their own energy through photosynthesis and are responsible for producing an estimated 80% of the world’s oxygen. They need #CO2 to thrive.
eos.org/research-spotl…

@EmmanuelMacron Many use fire to maintain farmland or to clear land.
Typically, activity peaks in early Sept & mostly stops by Nov.
#NASA satellite data indicates total fire activity across the #AmazonBasin this year has been close to the average of the past 15 years.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/…

@EmmanuelMacron The #Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, & parts of other countries. Fire activity appears to be above average in Amazonas & Rondônia; below average in Mato Grosso & Pará, according to estimates from a research project that compiles & analyzes #NASA data.
#AmazonFires

@EmmanuelMacron In the United States, an average of 69,020 wildfires (ABOUT 85% OF WHICH ARE HUMAN-CAUSED, according to the National Park Service) burn an average of 6.63 million acres each year, based on data from the past 10 years.
earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles… #AmazonFires #ClimateAlarmists

@EmmanuelMacron Fire season in the #Amazon runs June to Nov along the eastern & southern forest frontiers, sometimes referred to as the "arc of deforestation".
#ElNiño in the Pacific Ocean & Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation influence drought conditions & risk of fires.
globalfiredata.org/forecast.html

@EmmanuelMacron Currently, the 20°C isotherm is deeper than average in the Pacific south of the equator, indicating that strong warmer-than-average subsurface water persists in that area.
climate.gov/news-features/…
#PlateClimatology #GeothermalGlobalWarming #DNC

@EmmanuelMacron The real cause of the #ElNiño #LaNiña cycles
static1.squarespace.com/static/55315cd…
#PlateClimatology #GeothermalGlobalWarming #JamesEdwardKamis #JamesEKamis

@EmmanuelMacron An #ElNiño occurs when increased equatorial Pacific Ocean surface temperatures influence air & moisture movement around the globe.
The cyclical changes alter everything from rainfall patterns to frequency & intensity of wildfires.
nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12114 #GeothermalGlobalWarming

@EmmanuelMacron Humans — not lightning or #CO2 — trigger most wildfires in the U.S.
84% of the blazes between 1992 & 2012 were ignited by people. Sparks from railroads & power lines, as well as arson, also routinely cause wildfires.
#GlobalWarming doesn't start fires.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/89757/p…

@EmmanuelMacron The #AmazonFires are real, mostly set by farmers and land developers, but the photographs that celebrities and politicians are sharing? Well, it depends.
nytimes.com/2019/08/23/wor… #ClimateAlarmists #DNC

@EmmanuelMacron The majority of these #AmazonFires were set by farmers preparing farmland for next year’s crops and pasture.
Much of the land that is burning was not old-growth rain forest, but land that had already been cleared of trees and set for agricultural use.
nytimes.com/2019/08/23/wor…

@EmmanuelMacron It is routine for farmers and ranchers in tropical areas to burn fields to control pests & weeds & encourage new growth in pastures.
#RainforestDeforestation rates have increased a bit, but they are still way below their earlier highs:
reason.com/2019/08/23/don… #ClimateAlarmists

@EmmanuelMacron The largest tropical reforestation effort in history aims to restore 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon by 2023.
The multimillion dollar, six-year project spans nearly 70,000 acres.
weforum.org/agenda/2017/11… #AmazonFires #ClimateAlarmists

@EmmanuelMacron After hibernating during the ultra-frigid & wet Northern hemisphere winter, #ClimateAlarmists are getting desperate for ways to fool their cult members, claiming relatively "normal" #AmazonFires are now destroying #TheLungsOfTheWorld.
#ClimateEvangelists

@EmmanuelMacron #Macron, the president of France, included a misleading photo in a tweet. The photo was taken by Loren McIntyre, who died in 2003. The #Amazon is on fire (set deliberately), but the photos you’re seeing on social media don’t show it.
motherjones.com/environment/20… #ClimateAlarmists

@EmmanuelMacron Clearing of land during the months-long dry season to make way for crops or grazing has accelerated the deforestation.
More than half of the fires are in the Amazon, and some 1,663 new fires were ignited between Thursday and Friday.
thehindu.com/news/internati… #AmazonFires

@EmmanuelMacron Your tax dollars at work
During the #VietnamWar, U.S. forces sprayed 72 million liters of herbicides, including #AgentOrange on the Vietnamese countryside & dropped roughly 13 million tons of bombs.
Defoliants destroyed about 7,700 square miles of forests.
e360.yale.edu/features/in_wa…

@EmmanuelMacron Mathematically, it’s impossible for the #Amazon to produce 20% of Earth’s oxygen. Plant plankton in the oceans produces 80%.
All tropical forests, including those in Africa & Indonesia, produce 20% of the oxygen from land-based sources.
forbes.com/sites/rachelsa… #ClimateAlarmists

@EmmanuelMacron The real #LungsOfThePlanet
#Plankton that are plants, known as #phytoplankton, grow and get their own energy through photosynthesis and are responsible for producing an estimated 80% of the world’s oxygen. Like #rainforests, they need #CO2 to thrive.
eos.org/research-spotl…

@EmmanuelMacron #AmazonRainforest represents at most approximately 6% of the world’s oxygen production. That oxygen production from plant growth is offset by the decomposition from plant death.
climatenexus.org/climate-change… #ClimateAlarmists #phytoplankton

@EmmanuelMacron The Amazon removes up to two billion tons of #CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, and it returns about 1.5 billion tons of oxygen to the atmosphere. But 1.5 billion tons of oxygen is a very small fraction, 0.001% of the planet's oxygen.
quora.com/Does-the-Amazo… #DNC

@EmmanuelMacron #Phytoplankton contribute between 50 to 85% of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists can determine how much oxygen is produced by a single phytoplankton cell. The hard part is figuring out the total number throughout Earth’s oceans.
earthsky.org/earth/how-much… #ClimateAlarmism

@EmmanuelMacron Panic stories of the #AmazonFires are #ClimateAlarmist #EndOfTheWorld #FakeNews.
It's still bad, but happens every year.

@EmmanuelMacron Deliberately ignited #AmazonFires are real; as they are every year; but the #ClimateAlarmist media frenzy this year is mostly #FakeNews.
#ClimateAlarmism #ClimateEvangelists #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GeothermalClimateChange threadreaderapp.com/thread/1165118…