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It depends which region you are looking at - Amazonas (for example), is much closer to a record.

https://www.globalfiredata.org/forecast.html#amazonas

It is the biomass burning season, so you do expect some fires anyway - I am not clear quite how this year fits in overall.

The dry season just started.

It started in July.

And ends in November. My chart reading skills are notoriously bad, but I interpreted the linked chart as "year to date", not expected outcome.

So what? It's still bad. There was a lot of effort on reducing deforestation and fires in the previous governments and now it's climbing back up.

Citylab is owned by The Atlantic media Group.

The Atlantic was sold in 2017 to the Emerson Collective.

The Emerson collective is a philanthropic endeavour of Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of late Steve Jobs.

Literally this article was published by the wife of a silicon valley tycoon.

This is why I only read IPCC Studies and pay attention to them. If the world burns out because of global warming, it'll be due to Scare-articles like this one.