When There Aren't More Fires, but still More Smoke?

In 2005, Al Gore and a couple of partners launched Current TV. It was basically revenue insolvent from the start. By 2013, even the most radical environmental people had become tired of reruns of “An Inconvenient Truth” and Michael Moore documentaries. It was so dreadful that, after less than a year on Current TV, they fired the overly-progressive Keith Olbermann.

In 2013, Current TV was sold to Al Jazeera Media Network, which merely acquired Current TV’s broadcasting license and began disseminating news as Al Jazeera America. In that sale, Al Gore pocketed a cool USD $100 million.

Hypocritically, the king of climate change sold to Al Jazeera, a state-owned network by the country of Qatar, a rich Arab empire whose vast wealth is derived from oil. It proved Gore’s fantasies were for sale.

Ironically, four years prior, Al Jazeera received its license to broadcast in Canada. Open AI writes, “Al Jazeera English secured formal approval and began distribution in Canada well before Fox News became broadly accessible, reflecting a regulatory timeline that favored Al Jazeera’s entry into the Canadian broadcasting landscape.” This clearly illustrates the progressive partisanship of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

An article entitled “Climate-change-driven wildfires increasing air pollution across globe” recently appeared on Al Jazeera. The subtitle reads, “Wildfires release a “witches’ brew” of pollutants that can wreck air quality even a continent away, posing risks for infrastructure, ecosystems, and human health.”

They write, “In a report released on Friday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said wildfires, likely to have been made more frequent by climate change, are releasing a “witches’ brew” of pollutants that can end up wrecking air quality a continent away”, and furthered that with “Such blazes in the Amazon, Canada and Siberia have brought home how air quality can be affected on a vast scale, the WMO said in its fifth annual Air Quality and Climate Bulletin.”

The World Meteorological Organization is an agency of the United Nations, and as such, would automatically make it a formidable campaigner of anthropogenic climate change.

Below is the amount of acreage burned globally – the NASA has stated, “Global acreage burned by fires has shown a significant long-term decline, with data indicating a 24% reduction between 1998 and 2015, and a 25% drop since 2003.

As far as Amazonian fires, OpenAI states, “Brazil has recorded a 65% drop in the area burned by fires in the Amazon, marking the lowest level since monitoring began, according to data from MapBiomas.”

In Canada, the worst years for recently recorded wildfires were from 1979 to approximately 1997, but they appear to have been declining since.

Naturally, Al Jazeera and its journalists have access to the same information and data that I gather. Is it laziness or a cheerleading function that they do not? Since it is state-owned by an oil-rich nation, one would expect that Al Jazeera would do a little more homework.

Qatar was the nation that promised the United States a new Boeing 747 Air Force One for use by future American Presidents.