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razor_eddie t1_j3xhh35 wrote

Reply to comment by SirWhatsalot in 'A sea of green': Central Australia in full bloom as floodwaters bring the Red Centre to life by is0ph

You know that the frogs who are adapted to these sort of events will be welcoming the rain, to fill up their water bubbles for the next dry season?

The last hundred years in Australia have been unusually dry. This greening is both welcome and expected, and not a "major shift" of any sort.

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razor_eddie t1_j3xge64 wrote

Reply to comment by warrant2k in 'A sea of green': Central Australia in full bloom as floodwaters bring the Red Centre to life by is0ph

>then wildfires

Largest ever Californian wildfire was just over a million acres. In 2020. That year, the wildfires burned just over 4 million acres. Which was a record.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4jandlhh/top20_acres.pdf

In Aus, in 2020, bushfires burned about 10 times as much acreage (46 million). A bad year, but not the worst.

In the last 20 years, the 99 million acre one in the Northern Territory.

THe 1974-5 season took out 290 million acres. (The state of California is 104 million acres in size).

Trust me, Australian bushfires make californian ones look tiny.

The bad season in 2020, the Southern Alps in New Zealand got a fair dusting of ash from the Australian bushfires. That;s like getting the ash from a California fire in Arkansas.

Australian trees (eucalypts) have evolved to survive bushfires, there are that many of them. Australia does bushfires worse than anyone else.

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handyandy727 t1_j3xbs8f wrote

Reply to comment by vacuum_everyday in 'A sea of green': Central Australia in full bloom as floodwaters bring the Red Centre to life by is0ph

My wife is from California and still can't explain that. Maybe it's because state highways are so big too? Like Highway 90 is basically an interstate in size. I dunno.

ETA: We live in KY, and we just say "65" or "71". We omit the "I-" but don't use THE unless it's a parkway or expressway.

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SirWhatsalot t1_j3xb76x wrote

Reply to comment by CaptainMagnets in 'A sea of green': Central Australia in full bloom as floodwaters bring the Red Centre to life by is0ph

The warmer winter I ment in general regardless of where you are, but yes, it is summer there, but if all of the sudden people were happy death valley in the US was blooming I would not be thrilled , in fact I would be terrified of what this means and for what's about to start happening and becoming the "new normal".

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vacuum_everyday t1_j3xayve wrote

Reply to comment by chipsinsideajar in 'A sea of green': Central Australia in full bloom as floodwaters bring the Red Centre to life by is0ph

Serious question: why do Californians add “the” in front of everything, but especially freeways?Up north we just call it I-15. As in “I-15 is jammed with hours long delays.” Other freeways are just their number.

But “THE 15” setup is a dead giveaway they’re from California.

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