When the data of the sun-synchronous environmental research
satellite showed that the Amazon Rain Forest was greener than it actually was
during a drought proof that the NASA Terra satellite is plagued with an optical
illusion?
By: Ringo Bones
Ever since it was launched in Vandenberg Air force Base back
in December 18, 1999, NASA’s Terra satellite was expected to be a warts-n’-all
environmental science instruments that was expected to provide an “unbiased”
environmental assessment of our planet’s most critically endangered ecosystems.
But does the recently discovered “optical illusion” provided by the
multi-million US dollar optics of the said satellite discovered by a team of
scientists at Swansea University about to cast doubt the most recent scientific
data about the extent of climate change and global warming?
Professor Peter North of Swansea University in the UK was
one of the consulted experts that checked out why NASA’s Terra satellite was
seeing “optical illusions” given that it is an unbiased scientific instrument
after providing data that the Amazon Rain Forest is greener than it actually
does – even during times of recent prolonged unseasonable drought – despite scientists
actually in the Amazon Rain Forest providing contradictory data “seen” by the Terra
satellite. Professor North explains that it was due to the Terra satellite
seeing the Amazon Rain Forest at a particular angle in its sun-synchronous
orbit that made its advanced optics – despite of the satellite’s high-tech
false color far infrared and deep ultraviolet capabilities - see as if the
Amazon Rain Forest is greener than it actually is even in times of the recent
prolonged drought that affected the environmentally sensitive region.
Professor Danny McCarroll of Swansea University also states
that the recent revelation that the Terra satellite is plagued by “optical
illusions” could probably throw back all the research done so far on how “preventable”
greenhouse gas emissions produced by our industrial activity thrown into the
atmosphere affect our fragile climate. The Terra satellite data might be
hijacked by climate change deniers who so far had resorted to conservative right-wing
evangelical activism to disprove recent climate data supporting climate change
and global warming.
