By now you’ve probably seen the orange-hued pictures of kangaroos fleeing hellish, fiery landscapes and other documentation of the intense wildfires currently raging in Australia.

Those fires have killed an estimated 24 people and 400 million-500 million animals and have consumed more than 19,000 square miles of land.

But those numbers can be hard to wrap your head around. So the National Weather Service’s Wilmington, Ohio, branch tweeted a map that brings home the scope of the disaster.

The fires have burned a swath of Australia roughly the size of NWS Wilmington’s coverage area, which stretches across parts of Indiana, Ohio and Northern Kentucky. That area goes as far north as Ada, Ohio and as far south as Maysville, Kentucky.

Currently, more than 2,700 firefighters are battling the blazes, which scientists have tied to climate change. Three have died fighting the fires.

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This article appears in Jan 1-7, 2020.

4 replies on “Here’s An Extremely Depressing Way For Ohioans to Visualize the Extent of Australia’s Wild Fires”

  1. Clearly we just need to send over some American Conservatives and oil company execs to explain to those damn Australians and their wildfires that climate change is a hoax…

    Never forget how wrong you were and are, morons.

  2. As of publication of this article 184 people have been arrested including 2 young men who have admitted to starting the fires in Australia. deliberately. This info is available on any ap or Reuters news site yet here Scene is deceptively blaming climate change.

  3. Moronsgonnamoron proves himself right. It’s almost like all these communists are so desperate to prove climate change, they’ll even lie about it on a grand scale and ignore actual causes. I guess it’s just a coincidence that their answer to the climate change issue is, of course, global communism.

  4. Wrong, morons. Do yourself a favor and check out a reputable news source, and not right wing, conspiracy claptrap. Snopes will tell you why your claim of 184 people (200 arrests is also commonly reported right wing conspiracy crap) is 100% false.

    So yeah, morons like you guys gonna moron, and keep making up complete and utter bullshit in order to attempt to make it look like you’re correct in your ridiculous conspiracy driven beliefs about climate change.

    Problem is, you aren’t right, you never were right and as long as you keep spouting debunked conapiracy nonsense you never will be right. Carry on deluding yourselves, it’s the only thing you people are any good at.

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