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kadupse t1_j84z193 wrote

Reply to comment by shitposts_over_9000 in Deforestation in Brazil falls by 60% in first month under Lula by Competitive-Wall2473

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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