Are we actually suggesting that the fires in the Amazon are not happening? This is an awfully weird story to have been imagined all of a sudden with a bunch of pictures proving it's going on.
Global temps are rising and glaciers are receding etc. and it's fine to debate the human impact of these changes, but denying simple facts is not a good look to bring to the debate.
Tons not denying they are occurring, just that the magnitude and overall impact on the actual "rainforest" is not true since a large number of these fires are on land that has already been cleared and is being burned to clear for this years crops.
Here is a good link to help cut through fact vs fiction,
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weat...wont-tell-you-about-the-amazon-fires/70009150
Average temperatures rise and fall, glaciers expand and recede all part of natural cycles. This story fits into the narrative that "since the rainforests are burning down and they, especially the Amazon, are the lungs of the world for their ability to absorb CO2, then given their imminent destruction by man, we need to double down on a carbon free energy systems, since the forests can't possibly survive this onslaught.
One other thing is that NASA (and others) are probably using the raster variant of GPS modeling (the opposite is Vector which forms patterns line isotherms or contour lines). Raster models look like giant sheets of engineering paper so that if any point in that square shows up as a "fire" the whole square is coded to the color they program in (this case its orange) without regard to fire size or if it is really even a fire. It doesn't matter if the fire is 1 acre or 1,000 acres, so when you see these maps you have to understand that the orange blobs don't represent a total covered area of fire. It's much like magnifying a picture from a digital camera, if you magnify the picture enough times it becomes out of focus and you start to see squares developing in place of a recognizable picture.
I was living in Jackson Hole when the Yellowstone fires occurred in 1988. From the reports you would think the whole place burned down but in reality most "forest" type fires don't burn everything in their path, they create a mosaic of burned and unburned areas. If you have had the privileged of driving through Yellowstone in the last 15 years you would see new growth right next to old stands most of the time that was the exact fire line where the new growth represents areas that were burned and the old growth is areas that were not even though they were adjacent to each other.
