{"id":27233,"date":"2020-01-07T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27233"},"modified":"2020-01-07T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T22:15:09","slug":"thats-not-an-island-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/07\/thats-not-an-island-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Not An Island On Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been seeing the horrific pictures and stories (not to mention <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/04\/the-potent-cocktail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ridiculous conspiracy theories<\/a>) concerning the Australian wildfires, but their impact on Americans may be a bit blunted because we don&#8217;t really think Australia&#8217;s much more than an oversized island. <em>Au contraire<\/em>, thanks to Kyle Hill:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you overlaid what\u2019s happening in Australia right now on the US <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I3LQPT8rh1\">pic.twitter.com\/I3LQPT8rh1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kyle Hill (@Sci_Phile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sci_Phile\/status\/1213703245794693120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australia&#8217;s<\/a> area is 7,692,024 km<sup>2<\/sup>, and the United States&#8217; area is 9,833,520 km<sup>2<\/sup>; subtract Alaska at 1,717,856\u00a0km<sup>2<\/sup> and the continental United States&#8217; area is roughly 8,115,664 km<sup>2<\/sup>, or we can just say Australia is roughly 94% the size of the continental United States.<\/p>\n<p>And those fires are doing significant damage to an area about the size of our own.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to climate change, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been seeing the horrific pictures and stories (not to mention ridiculous conspiracy theories) concerning the Australian wildfires, but their impact on Americans may be a bit blunted because we don&#8217;t really think Australia&#8217;s much more than an oversized island. Au contraire, thanks to Kyle Hill: If you overlaid what\u2019s \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/07\/thats-not-an-island-on-fire\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27234,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27233\/revisions\/27234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}