Pay attention to the connection between the facts. From April 28 to May 7, the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul suffered the largest flood in its history, a climate catastrophe similar to that which occurred in Valencia at the end of October. Almost 200 people died and 2.4 million gauchos, as the inhabitants of that State are called, were affected. In the second half of the year, the Amazon rainforest has suffered an extreme drought for the second consecutive year, even worse than that of 2023. It has also burned: 138,000 fires caused by human action, the vast majority intentional, a loss until November of 16.9 million hectares, 7.6 million of jungle alone. In September, smoke from the fire in the far north of Brazil traveled thousands of kilometers to the far south of the country. For several days, Porto Alegre, the capital of the State that suffered the flood, woke up with the sky covered in ash. The “flying rivers”, so called because they conduct the perspiration of trees through the sky, creating the rains of South America, have begun to carry smoke from the fires. Another warning that the strategic jungle to stop global warming could become not a solution, but a problem.
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