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I just Googled something that doesn't seem right to me. Does it seem right to you?

I Googled Amazon Rainforest fires. Now the site sez 2,240,000 acres have been burned so far and that it has been ONGOING since January of 2019 and is still going.

Now in Australia so far 12 million acres have been burned and it started in September? Can that be right?

The fire next time appears to be going on worldwide. Besides Australia and a few months ago California and the Amazon Rainforest where else is getting hard hit?

Posted - January 5, 2020
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  • 34693
    The Amazon amount is total that has been burned over tome not the total for 2019. (Also something to know they are not started by global warming....they are started by people there) 
      January 5, 2020 6:01 AM MST
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  • 10701
    If you want to see fires burning world wide, check out this link - 


    https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/



      It's interactive, so feel free to adjust the parameters.
      January 5, 2020 10:15 AM MST
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  • 44704
    That's an interesting map, but it doesn't seem likely that many fires are going on right now. Two in Chicago?
      January 5, 2020 12:52 PM MST
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  • 10701
    It probably goes off of heat sources.  
      January 5, 2020 1:40 PM MST
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