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2019-20 Australian Bushfires - Australia is Burning

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Australia is on fire. S480 million wild animals are estimated to have been killed by last week. Over 200 bushfires in all six states... .have destroyed 1,500 homes and burned more than six million hectares (14 million acres) since November. 23 people have died, dozens more are missing. 100,000 have been evacuated. That's an area the size of West Virginia. Enormous smoke plumes have reached 5.5 million sq km (2.1 million sa miles) -the size of Western Europe. Countless climate change scientists have predicted increasingly extreme bushfire seasons in Australia for more than 30 years, since Dr Tom Beer's 1988 study'Australian bushfire danger under changing climatic regimes. 8, MOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Air quality in the national capital, Canberra, was the worst in the world on New Year's day, with January 4th the hottest day on record there at 44°C (111.2°F) . 08 ELERI 20 Sources: The Guardian, CNN, The University of Sydney, The Canberra Times. thenib.com

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Jolly Jew

Jan 08, 2020 at 07:45AM EST

greens: "don't use fire breaks
dont do controlled fires
don't chop trees in your own property"

and when fire inevitably destroys countless homes and animals because all methods of preventing the fire were outlawed, what do they geens say?
"hurr it's because of climate change, it was all YOUR fault"

yeah, no, fuck off.

Bob das uber Sexy Fish

Jan 07, 2020 at 10:03PM EST

An important factor, but often ignored one is that most of the fires start off man made, heck I remeber a story a few months back where an Australian Fire Fighter started some fires, it is true climate change has helped make this partly worse, but some of it was caused in part by, if I am not mistaken the fact Australian Government actually took actions which extended the Bushfire season, so there was a lot more dead wood everywhere meaning there was more wood to burn when a fire started. What I am trying to say is that this whole situation isn't just a climate change issue.

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