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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.

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  1. Re:Demise of the English langauge by SJHillman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, because English teachers are the only ones against it. Everyone else understands that it's acceptable when used properly.

  2. This is BAD by Gablar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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