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Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit
Jeremy Lee writes "Temperatures in Australia this week hit the point where the Bureau of Meteorology had to invent a new color. And with heat and winds come Bushfires. So it's probably good that I made a real-time bushfire map with every known source of public data directly relating to fires in Australia, mostly because fire doesn't respect state borders."
From space.
Yes, because English teachers are the only ones against it. Everyone else understands that it's acceptable when used properly.
I think that could be phrased better.
Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that the north pole melted to record small levels this years. This is an isolated incident of freak weather, as was Sandy.
It's all about finding better ways
You know must of us English speakers, both in the USA and else were would have written "So Much of Australia is on Fire" for a headline. "Australia Is On So Much Fire" Sounds like George Lucas is posting now.
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seeing a whole graph of temperature (or daily max, or daily mean or whatever) against time will always tell you much more about a trends than a list of its peaks can.
An ice age is not a multi-variable problem. Understanding how they came to be and changing the climate, however, is.
Since it is difficult in how it forms and goes away, I said it was dangerous to engineer a climate change, because it's a damn difficult multi-variable problem, and chances are we won't be able to predict the side effects of changing the delicate climate.
Yet I like to see anyone deny that we're still in an ice age, and how the ice is still melting more than there's water being frozen, anualy.
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It is possible, but if it did it would be a temporary effect that would only mask the problem. Eventually, the particles would settle out of the atmosphere and the climate would heat up extremely fast. Maintaining particulates in the air wouldn't be a viable option either as this would just be creating pollution on a massive scale to fight global warming. This would be the "releasing thousands of snakes to fight a lizard problem and then releasing thousands of gorillas to take care of the snakes" plan. Except there wouldn't be a winter to kill off the gorillas.
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I find it slightly ironic that you're talking about the demise of the English language when evolving use is a sure sign of a living language.
Of course we could use the semicolon; which was designed to allow two related, but seperate, senatces to be joined.
Starting with an "and" is conversational and is only used by people who didn't realise they had more to say than they did.
There's no excuse for such lack of planning when writting.
P.S. I'm terrible when it comes to spelling and grammar in general. This doesn't mean I would choose to get rid of them, especially given the confusion saved when they're correctly used.
just try to help your uncle jack of a horse with out using the correct language
Let me guess, droughts and similar in various parts of the world have never happened before. Really, do you guys ever think twice before declaring doom and gloom and how "THIS DISASTER PROVES BEYOND ANY DOUBT" really looks silly.
Sorry, we have been here before, seen it before, and will see it again. I am quite sure environmental issues faced by previous generations were just as end of world as some are today, replete with fools going "SEE SEE SEE".
About Sandy, there were some big ones in the 50s... the difference is that people hype things now rather than take care of the people affected.
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Meanwhile, down under is burning. Could you all topic drift back to that huge problem?
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