False Reports of Amazon Fires Mislead, Undermine Trust

False Reports of Amazon Fires Mislead, Undermine Trust
Fires, burning in the Amazon Rainforest, are pictured from space, captured by the geostationary weather satellite GOES-16 on Aug. 21, 2019. NASA/NOAA/Handout via REUTERS
Gregory Wrightstone
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The latest climate-change disaster du jour was the lead story in many newsfeeds and headlines around the globe. The report that the Amazon was burning at unprecedented rates due to man-made global warming was tailor-made for the climate-catastrophe crowd to promote fear of impending planet-wide doom.

Gregory Wrightstone
Gregory Wrightstone
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Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist and the executive director of the CO2 Coalition in Arlington, Virginia. He is bestselling author of “Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know.”
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