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shitposts_over_9000 t1_j83zppb wrote

Reply to comment by Sandi_T in Deforestation in Brazil falls by 60% in first month under Lula by Competitive-Wall2473

It is assuming he isn't playing funny games with the measurements to get more foreign aid like the last time.

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kadupse t1_j84z193 wrote

You're clearly completely unaware of what you're talking about.

There's nothing the president could do to fake these measurements. The only reports he could influence would be irrelevant to the international public and media, and wouldn't even be trusted by Brazilians.

I'm a Brazilian biologist, we are serious about this. We just couldn't do much during Bolsonaro's government.

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shitposts_over_9000 t1_j85axy2 wrote

it is satellite imagery so in addition to the weather issue mentioned in the article itself this time of year there is also the issue of calibrating for ground conditions. it doesn't mention which satellite survey methods are at play here but nearly all of them require some degree of human intervention for reclassification which can always be optimistic or pessimistic if you have sway over those doing the reclassification or you can just feed them bad survey data if you don't

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FlaLawDog t1_j84a072 wrote

What, exactly, is your basis for this allegation?

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shitposts_over_9000 t1_j84d5hg wrote

Two things:

Under several leaders they have made press on satellite foliage coverage changes being positive without adjusting for a baseline or ground conditions.

The last time this guy was in power the first numbers from the next guy indicated a pretty unrealistic rate of change as soon as he was gone. The two most simple explanations are the either the books were cooked or the deforestation was well under way the last time he was in power, he was looking the other way and the work wasn't visible to satellites yet.

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FlaLawDog t1_j84a1ll wrote

What, exactly, is your basis for this allegation?

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FlaLawDog t1_j84a963 wrote

What, exactly, is your basis for this allegation?

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