The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February
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#3Oh... "The" Amazon, as in rainforest.
I went in thinking this was about site reliability engineering.
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I initially thought it was warehouse fires...
The Amazon makes a lot more sense so. Articles exist for a reason...
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#5Oh... "The" Amazon, as in rainforest. I went in thinking this was about site reliability engineering.
That too.
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I thought the same, funnily enough they just changed the title :)
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#7It’s been 25 years since I first flew over the Amazon at night. I remember wondering what those ragged orange arcs on the ground were. At first I thought they were the lights of coastal settlements, but the map showed us hundreds of miles inland.
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#9+286% is nearly 4x (100% => 386%), not nearly 3x.
> the number of fires this year for [Feb 1-Feb 25] already exceeds those recorded in the last seven years [for Feb]
So that would be 2017-2023 ?
So those would be the years since the last El Niño (2014-2016), I wonder how it compares ? (Did we even have the measurement infrastructure during that previous cycle ??)
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#10This article doesn’t cover one of the key contributing factors to this which is the cyclical nature of drought resilience and deforestation. As rainforest is lost, precipitation decreases due to a decrease in tree perspiration, reducing humidity and the amount of water available to the trees, making them more susceptible to fires.
When you then combine that with longer dry seasons, higher max temperatures, and slash and burn land management practices, the rainforest is in for a bad time.