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With all the media claims about the Amazon burning at "record" rates, it is perhaps worth realizing that NASA says total fire activity is close to the average of the last 15 years

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/…
The fire emission estimates (for all of the Amazon, also the one outside Brazil) suggests that 2019 is not in any way a record

globalfiredata.org/forecast.html
Robert Walker has a great walk-through of why the Brazilian INPE is in general a great science outlet and we should likely trust their deforestation estimates, but how the number-of-fires estimates are not reliable

science20.com/robert_walker/…
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