sort of homage or a signal that they were hearing his calls to open the amazon for business. they were hearing his calls that the amazon should be raised for profit making, and so they were answering his calls. so this i mean, the year-over-year data is crazy on this. this is a huge increase year-over-year. so what you re saying is like this is this is the policy playing out. these are people taking a signal from bolcinaro. there s evidence of that? yeah, so several brazilian news outlets have went to this region and interviewed these farmers, and they re quoted as saying that they did this to clear land for agra business and inspired by bolcinaro and his rhetoric. what are the stakes for folks that are watching this? i think we all grew up hearing about the amazon and deforestation. the time i was in the amazon and i saw a part that was deforested i was like sort of blown away. yeah. what is how important is this from a climate perspective? this is extremely importan
warmed this half a degree in the late 20th century and the co2 has gone up and up in the atmosphere, what we have done is created a greener and greener planet, and the greening of the planet earth is profound. there s a very recent paper that just came out a couple of months ago showing tremendous increases in how much green matter there is on the planet. vegetation. vegetation. the largest increases, by the way, are in the tropical rain forests. it s growing like is that why we never hear about it anymore? i don t know why we don t hear about it anymore but it sure is growing. and in grassland, which is, a lot of it is used for agriculture. prairies, cows. the data for 17 years of satellite data showed the grassland green mass, if you will, is growing at 5% per year.
tactical levels, the hills and valleys, there is very little information. who has been able to do that? is there a drive to do that? yes, the oceanographers and scientists have been told there are 7% of our ocean that is it, most of our planet. we re living on an unknown pl planet. that is crazy 7%. the highest, deepest valleys, waterfalls, lakes, rivers, we find more life there than the tropical rain forests, but we re not giving attention to how important this is. mary, how amazing is this with multiple countries involved? i assume if australia is called about a possible next phase? i would assume they have to do that in conjunction with malaysia, it is malaysia s investigation to control. so i think that australia will make the recommendation and