(This post may contain disputed claims. We make no assertions as to the validity of the information presented by our Opinion Columnist. We are an opinion blog, not a traditional news outlet, and this post should be treated as such. Enjoy.)President Donald Trump is shaking up the G7 meeting in France and making the leftwing journalists and eco-activists in the Hollywood crowd really angry. Well, Trump was proven right after the Amazon fire scare was found to be fake news as leftists like Madonna freak out. You’re going to love this.
President Donald Trump is running rings around the leftwing journalists at the G7 in France. The 45th president shocked and angered the global warming nuts by sending aides to the big climate change session at the G7. They all were expecting Trump to show up.
“U.S. President Donald Trump skipped a discussion on climate with other world leaders at the Group of Seven summit in France, leaving an empty chair as global power brokers debated how to help the fire-ravaged Amazon and reduce carbon emissions,” the Associated Press reported.
“Trump was scheduled to attend Monday’s session on climate, biodiversity and oceans at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, but didn’t,” they added.
Today, the United States is the world’s lone super-power, and Trump is making it clear that he isn’t on board with the idea of climate change.
For the last week, the global warming crowd has been crying about the Amazon fire as if it’s the Apocalypse. “Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio were among the scores of Hollywood figures demanding action to address the ongoing crisis in the Brazilian Amazon, where fires continue to ravage the world’s largest tropical rainforest,” Breitbart reported.
Madonna freaked out: “We need to WAKE -UP!! The future of the rainforest affects the future of the world!” Leonardo DiCaprio declared that the “lungs of the earth are in flames.”
Other celebrities, including singers Miguel and Camila Cabello, actors like John Cusack and Whitney Cummings, reality TV star Kris Jenner, soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, and internet personality Logan Paul also took to social media to express their dismay. They all cite President Trump as a problem and “climate change denier.”
They all claim that the Amazon fire is a disaster of biblical proportions. But almost everything you have read or heard about the Amazon fires in the mainstream media is #FakeNews.
Here is the truth about the Amazon fires: The fires are mainly on agricultural land – not virgin rain forest. “Turns out the Amazon Rain Forest fires aren’t exactly as advertised. Read for yourself: fires are mainly in agricultural areas as farmers prepare their land for planting. The land was cleared in the past,” tweeted Ryan Mue:
Turns out the Amazon Rain Forest fires aren't exactly as advertised.
Read for yourself: fires are mainly in agricultural areas as farmers prepare their land for planting. The land was cleared in the past. https://t.co/j8MXX8XWIH pic.twitter.com/hxhuxDZbeP
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) August 24, 2019
“[A]mazing: an informative article and very informative map by NYT on Amazon fires. Map shows that fires in previously cleared land. Nothing new. Furore is yet another fraud by enviro activists,” tweeted Stephen McIntyre.
amazing: an informative article and very informative map by NYT on Amazon fires. Map shows that fires in previously cleared land. Nothing new. Furore is yet another fraud by enviro activists. https://t.co/xlMXiMZ9BM pic.twitter.com/e6p8GHW3BU
— Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit) August 24, 2019
There is nothing abnormal about this fire season.
“To everyone concerned about the future of the Amazon: sensationalizing the current fire season in the Amazon will not help keep it from burning. Monthly Amazon fire count data from NASA in recent years: thick red line is 2019 thru present,” tweeted Dr. Dan Nepstad.
To everyone concerned about the future of the Amazon: sensationalizing the current fire season in the Amazon will not help keep it from burning.
Monthly Amazon fire count data from NASA in recent years: thick red line is 2019 thru present. https://t.co/86C0ZnhbGg pic.twitter.com/LFafdEJTiB— Dr Dan Nepstad (@dnepstad1) August 23, 2019
Even NASA admits this. The following information was updated on August 22, 2019:
“An analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.) Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data,” reports Earth Observatory NASA.
The Amazon rainforest does NOT produce 20 percent of the world’s oxygen, and therefore is not the “lungs of the earth.”
“Moreover, it is a myth that photosynthesis controls the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. Even if all photosynthesis on the planet were shut down, the atmosphere’s oxygen content would change by less than 1 percent. The Amazon rain forest is often perceived as the lungs of the planet,” reported the New York Times.
“In fact, almost all the oxygen the Amazon produces during the day remains there and is reabsorbed by the forest at night. In other words, the Amazon rain forest is a closed system that uses all its own oxygen and carbon dioxide,” they added.
Like so many of the environmental scare stories which grip the world’s media periodically, it is a panic which has been deliberately and cynically stoked by left-leaning eco-activist groups for a number of purposes.
To lend false credibility to the global left’s claim that the planet is experiencing a climate emergency. To invoke the specter of the Green New Deal and, by extension, to rain on the parade of Trump 2020, and to exploit the mainstream media’s insatiable demand for environmental scare stories, especially in the August “silly season” when there’s a shortage of real news.
Make sure you spread the word: the Amazon fire is not a real emergency. The truth might just wake up a few who are on the edge of voting for President Trump in 2020. If it only changes one vote for the good of our nation, then we will have won a great victory in this ongoing battle to re-elect the man who has truly made America great again.
