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Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 10 2019, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the There-Is-No-Such-Thing-As-Climate-Change dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Australia is on fire. Again. Happens every year around this time, but this year is worse. A lot worse, with smoke and haze covering large parts of the eastern seaboard. The effect of the fires can be felt in New Zealand where the smoke is causing blood red sunsets. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Australia has briefly offered a prayer in support. The deadly fires have killed hundreds of drop bears while scourging the countryside across several states.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday December 10 2019, @08:46PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday December 10 2019, @08:46PM (#930770) Journal

    Yes, that's what it looks like when wildfires burn. It's what the summer looked like nearly every year growing up in the American West. It's not fun. But almost every place has something that makes it less enjoyable. The South has hurricanes. The MidWest has tornadoes. And so on.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @09:00PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @09:00PM (#930774)

    As an asthmatic the bit that hurt my brain this week, in Sydney, was going outside with the smokers on my coffee break and wondering if they were getting cleaner air than I was ..

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:52AM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:52AM (#931016) Journal

      I read a funny anecdote by an American expat in Beijing who decided it was healthier for his lungs to give up jogging there, except the poor air quality was man-made by the coal-burning power plants the wise Communists placed in the middle of the city.

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