By contrast, the GFC dataset, which is considered to be more accurate than previous remote sensing datasets due to its unprecedented global high spatial resolution, showed that the change in forest area of China between 2000 and 2012 was a net loss of 38,743 km2, equivalent to a decline of 0.40% in national forest coverage

Basically, satellite imagery seems to "strangely" conflict with CCP figures.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ngl, vietnam is looking pretty impressive too

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[–] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

but at what cost? 😭

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Xi is genociding the deserts.

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[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 21 points 11 months ago (45 children)

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

[–] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago (13 children)

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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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

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

What did the RoC Marine Corps do to you?

[–] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (29 children)

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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[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

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

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

some-controversy

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what's going on with the DPRK

[–] axont@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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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