China has grown more new forest cover than any nation on Earth : worldnews

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That GFC study contradicts the many studies using both older datasets and newer datasets:

CAS: https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/mutimedia_news/202203/t20220322_302792.shtml

UNESCO: http://www.unesco-hist.org/index.php?r=en/article/info&id=1714

Journal of Geophysical Research: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JG007101

Remote Sensing: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/13/2592

International Journal of Remote Sensing: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431161.2021.2022804

International Journal of Digital Earth: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2023.2190625

In science, we call this "cherrypicking data." Colloquially, we understand this to be because someone fucked their experimental validation. In the real world, we call this "disseminating misinformation."

global-scale data cannot reasonably represent changes in the regional land cover. Moreover, different studies may have different accuracies within the same region and even may reach opposite conclusions

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

ngl, vietnam is looking pretty impressive too

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Cuba is at 57.5%, also one of the highest in the world percentage-wise

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

but at what cost? 😭

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Xi is genociding the deserts.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

This article is nearly two years old. Also, I implicitly distrust any source which depicts Taiwan as part of the PRC.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Every single country on Earth except like seven (I only remember the Vatican and Paraguay) acknowledges that Taiwan is a dependent province of the PRC, including the USA and just about all of Europe.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

The unofficial consensus between the KMT/PRC was that Taiwan and China are one country. The NED-funded DPP has been trying to break that status quo, though.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Daily reminder:

The Taiwan Province is an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China:

And this is recognized by the United Nations ever since 1971 after UNGAR 2758.

Source, page 546: https://web.archive.org/web/20230503050030/https://legal.un.org/unjuridicalyearbook/pdfs/english/volumes/2010.pdf

Video of the votes happening: https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=sfOIEjuXFyU

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Also, I implicitly distrust any source which depicts Taiwan as part of the PRC.

What did the RoC Marine Corps do to you?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

that's a healthy way to distrust the US and chinese governments i guess

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

some-controversy

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

some-controversy

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I wonder what's going on with the DPRK

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pretty bad drought and floods over the past 20 years, and the country is too mountainous to support most effective reforestation strategies. So it's mostly climate change, economic isolation, and only 17% of the land can support forests in the first place. It's not a good time right now.

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