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

[-] stifle867@programming.dev 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[-] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

ngl, vietnam is looking pretty impressive too

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 1 year ago

but at what cost? 😭

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Xi is genociding the deserts.

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[-] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] axont@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year 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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[-] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year 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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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago