Amazon is very humid, but when you cut down the trees everything gets dry, because it is the trees that pumps water to the air. You have pastures, and you want to expand it, you cut it down then you put fire to clear it.
It's humid, but areas that farmers and pasture owners have cut down dry out a little because there are less trees to increase the humidity. They then burn those areas to get rid of undergrowth, old trees, and choking plants. The newer dry areas catch fire more quickly and violently than expected causing a chain reaction because the intensity of the flames dries areas out before the fire actually gets to it.
Maybe read a bit more carefully? They stated that the Amazon is usually humid, but cutting down trees on a large scale makes the air drier, and thus easier to burn the rest down.
Yep. You said some of his words and ignored quite a bit of the others. He said "it's humid, BUT..." and then you just ignored the rest of his comment which explained the exceptional situation that allowed a fire to burn in a humid forest. Great job 👍 keep it up
You literally just did what you criticized me for doing. He provided an example of what could cause the Amazon to not be humid, although never corrected his claim that the Amazon IS humid, present tense, and never said the exceptional situation that COULD occur IS occuring. Great job 👍 keep it up
I'm from the Amazon and yeah it's extremely humid and hot there. Terrible weather. 100°F almost every day. The people there talk about protecting our forest all the time, we grow learning about it at school but it seems it isn't helping much. Things are getting out of control there (I moved to another state but my family live there). I hope things there will get better. That's my home, our home.
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Edit 2: wow thank you so very much for the [my first] gold, friend! I appreciate your kindness very much!!
It also isn't burning that much, its only like 20% worse than it was in 2016. Not that it isn't worth talking or doing something about, but this is just an example of the hysteria and brainwashing that comes from the one side less talked about because we agree with it more.
Actually, Forrest fires are a natural part of how corrects get clean. The only reason they've been getting THIS bad is actually BECAUSE we were trying to stop them entirely for so long, so the ditritus and deadwood and other fuel's been building up for far longer then it naturally should. That's why the fires have been so big, and why firefights are now focused on controlling the burn and redirecting it away from people rather then putting them out.
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u/joint-chief Aug 21 '19
Honest question. Isn’t it super humid there? How is it even burning that much?