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Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief

posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 08 2020, @07:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the let's-measure dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Which is larger? Yours, or mine? Australia or the United States of America, that is. With the bushfires in Australia out of control incinerating large swathes of the country a map was produced to visually depict how widespread the fires are. For emphasis the map was overlaid on top of America to give people an idea of the scope of the problem Australia is dealing with. Americans responded with disbelief that Australia was just as large as the USA. People were also in shock over how large an area, measured by size of US states, are currently burning. Responses on social media show how shocked and dumbfounded people were learning this.

  • Area of Australia = 7.692 million km2
  • Area of USA, excluding Alaska = 7.653 million km2

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday January 08 2020, @07:18PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 08 2020, @07:18PM (#941164) Journal

    No, pretty much only the edges are on fire. Of course, that does make me wonder where the vegetation is too sparse to support fire.

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday January 09 2020, @02:11AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Thursday January 09 2020, @02:11AM (#941290) Homepage

    PJW showed a rather alarming satellite view (too lazy to go find a static image but I had this link to hand)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_tn8f0uaB4 [youtube.com]

    Note the correspondence:
    https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/forestsaustralia/profiles/eucalypt-forest [agriculture.gov.au]

    Ever seen this stuff burn? it's nature's accelerant.

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