{"id":7196,"date":"2020-01-04T07:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T07:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2020-01-04T07:51:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T07:51:39","slug":"australia-is-committing-climate-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/australia-is-committing-climate-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia is Committing Climate Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The most common causes of bushfires in Australia include\nlighting strikes, trees falling on powerlines, arsonists, unintentional\nkindling of surrounding foliage during agricultural land clearing, dropped\nmatches, cigarettes, sparks caused by power tools, farm machinery and\ncontrolled backburning escaping. Eucalypt trees are synonymous with the\nAustralian bushland and are what most Australians identify with when they hear\nthe words &#8220;bushfire&#8221;. Day turns to night as smoke extinguishes all\nlight in the horrifying minutes before the red glow announces the imminence of\nthe inferno and flames leaping 200 feet into the air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fires have already burned about 14.5 million acres \u2014 an\narea almost as large as West Virginia, more than triple the area destroyed by\nthe 2018 fires in California and six times the size of the 2019 fires in\nAmazonia. Canberra\u2019s air on New Year\u2019s Day was the most polluted in the world\npartly because of a plume of fire smoke as wide as Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most common causes of bushfires in Australia include lighting strikes, trees falling on powerlines, arsonists, unintentional kindling of surrounding foliage during agricultural land clearing, dropped matches, cigarettes, sparks caused by power tools, farm machinery and controlled backburning escaping. 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