If you’ve been reading the MSM over the past few days, you’ve been treated to a barrage of coverage over the fires in the Amazon and how what’s going on is a “massive increase over last year”:

ABC News

@ABC

The Amazon is often referred to as “the lungs of the planet.” It’s home to 10% of the world’s species and creates 20% of our oxygen.

There have been more than 74,000 fires in the Amazon since January, a massive increase over last year. http://abcn.ws/31Us1gP 

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And as we told you, politicians and celebs are really, really concerned. But not so concerned with the truth. . .

As we told you last night, the photo is from 2003:

Emmanuel Macron

@EmmanuelMacron

Our house is burning. Literally. The Amazon rain forest – the lungs which produces 20% of our planet’s oxygen – is on fire. It is an international crisis. Members of the G7 Summit, let’s discuss this emergency first order in two days!

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There’s just one problem with this narrative. NASA, which kind of started all of this when they posted this photo of the fires from space, said this year’s fires are at or below average “if we look back 15 years”:

Joe Hanson

@DrJoeHanson

But according to NASA, if we look back 15 years this year’s fire rates are at or below average. This really means in past years rates were very bad, not that this year’s rates are good, but it’s important context… we were on right track until recentlyhttps://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil 

Fires in Brazil

Fires in Brazil

Satellites begin to detect heightened fire activity in July and August in the Amazon.

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

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Weird! It’s a totally normal year for fires but everyone is freaking out? What could it be?

Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart

This NASA thing says that the fire activity in Brazil this year is normal. Is there some particular reason this particular bout of fires is getting so much attention? https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil 

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Brazil is even using the NASA report to dunk on the alarmists:

Embassy of Brazil in the USA 🇧🇷

@BrazilinUSA

Brazil commits a lot of resources to combat forest fires. A recently updated NASA report says that “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”. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-brazil 

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Related:

Twitchy Team

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Emmanuel Macron, celebs BUSTED sharing fake viral photos of the Amazon fires https://buff.ly/2ztOW6F 

Emmanuel Macron, celebs BUSTED sharing fake viral photos of the Amazon fires

Fake, but accurate?

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