Environment
Amazon Fires The Hype vs. the Truth

Amazon Fires The Hype vs. the Truth

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been chastised internationally for allowing damage to the Amazon rainforest, the so-called lungs of the Earth. But the charges are political, not scientific. ...
James Murphy
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Back in the late 1980s, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest was one of the causes that the day’s environmentalists were most vociferous about, along with the so-called destruction of the ozone layer. Today, it seems that the environmental movement has batted around the order, and the Amazon rainforest is front and center in today’s climate-change hysteria. 

Some of the headlines in the media were truly disturbing.

From CNN on August 26: “Flying above the Amazon fires, ‘all you can see is death.’”

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