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Wait a second, there was just a report put out by NASA that stated the world is become more green, specifically citing the Amazon Rain Forest as an area that’s more green than it was 20 years ago.

Something seems completely wrong here.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/02/28/nasa-says...

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Also a report from NASA that the fires in the Amazon were only slightly higher than normal - less than the levels seen in 2010.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145498/uptick-in-am...

Right, something seems very off with this journalism here.

Well, you're linking to Forbes, for starters. Even though it's a generally a terrible source of information, the article literally tells you in the headline that "NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks To China, India"

It says nothing about the Amazon, which is being cut down and burned down by people. You can see the Amazon as the big tan/light green blob in northern South America in the image in the article. There is just about no net greening. Greening is delta in LAI. You can burn down a rain forest and have a bunch of grass in it's place and there will be no net greening, but on the net it will release a ton of CO2 and destroy the environment.

That article doesn't even mention the Amazon? Per the chart, Brazil's net change in leaf area since the 1990s is a fat 0%.

That said, I do wonder if replacing rainforest with soybeans counts as no change in leaf area.

The article doesn’t, however the study does. You can see it’s circled in the map along with China and India. Read the study.

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