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Totally OT but this is the 2nd time I'm reading 'square area' and—shouldn't that be either 'square footage' or else 'area'? Area is already measured in power-of
by DemocracyFTW2 3y ago
Totally OT but this is the 2nd time I'm reading 'square area' and—shouldn't that be either 'square footage' or else 'area'? Area is already measured in power-of-two units, so why 'square area'? 'Cubic volume' anyone? 'Linear distance'?
- defrost 3y agoI'm leaving it for context but you're correct it should be something else - I commented too fast and came back for review. The intent is to convey the reality - the "fires decreasing" trope (in relation to climate change) is based on total global area - a flat measure. It's true the total area of sparse relatively open grass fires has decreased. As a number it doesn't reflect the increase in volume of material being burned in dense older growth heavily wooded areas seen in California, Australia, Canada, etc. At some point NASA (or anyone else that wants to pull the raw data) might look at removing periodic annual burn from their fire data sets and look at the differential on "new area burned" that hasn't seen fire for a decade (perhaps).