'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres

Re:'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres by lemming on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:20PM (#22015658)

Check the video here: https://mobile.twitter.com/passantino/status/121336729416160...

I'd say that's definitely globally relevant. On the day that was posted you could look on Himawari and clearly see huge smoke clouds from space. It's terrifying.

The last time I saw, they were estimated to have released 75% of Australia's annual emissions budget from burning coal. The scale of them is mind-boggling. The total estimated to have burned is 5M hectares, which is twice as much as the recent fires in the Arctic, and over 5x the recent Amazon fires. And there's no sign they're coming under control yet.

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Re:'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres by jordwest on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:20PM (#22016676)

Minor correction but it's closer to 11M hectares. The 5M hectares is just New South Wales alone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bus...

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Re:'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres by lemming on Friday January 10, 2020 @11:44PM (#22018193)

Wow, it's worse than I thought, and of course still ongoing - that is crazy.

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Re:'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres by tus88 on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:57PM (#22016042)

> the recent fires in the Arctic

The where?

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Re:'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres by leeoniya on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:00PM (#22016079)

maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Siberia_wildfires

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Re:'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres by lemming on Friday January 10, 2020 @11:47PM (#22018199)

Yes, those were the ones I meant, although from that page it's not clear whether the fires were above the Arctic circle or not. I thought they were but may have misremembered.

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