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Check the video here: https://mobile.twitter.com/passantino/status/1213367294161608704 https://mobile.twitter.com/passantino/status/121336729416160... I'd say

Check the video here: https://mobile.twitter.com/passantino/status/1213367294161608704 https://mobile.twitter.com/passantino/status/121336729416160... I'd say that's definitely globally relevant. On the day that was posted you could look on Himawari and clearly see huge smoke clouds from space. It's terrifying. The last time I saw, they were estimated to have released 75% of Australia's annual emissions budget from burning coal. The scale of them is mind-boggling. The total estimated to have burned is 5M hectares, which is twice as much as the recent fires in the Arctic, and over 5x the recent Amazon fires. And there's no sign they're coming under control yet.

tus88 7y ago
> the recent fires in the Arctic The where?
- leeoniya 7y ago
  maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Siberia_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Siberia_wildfires
  - lemming 7y ago
    Yes, those were the ones I meant, although from that page it's not clear whether the fires were above the Arctic circle or not. I thought they were but may have misremembered.
jordwest 7y ago
Minor correction but it's closer to 11M hectares. The 5M hectares is just New South Wales alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bushfire_season#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bus...
- lemming 7y ago
  Wow, it's worse than I thought, and of course still ongoing - that is crazy.