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Talk:2019–20 Australian bushfire season#Independent Australia

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Fact check needed

:81% of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area burned.

Is this accurate? It seems very high. Jack Upland (talk) 00:39, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

:The source following that claim does NOT mention it. Delete? HiLo48 (talk) 04:42, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

::I'd say so. I know the area fairly well and there's no way 81% was burnt.--Jack Upland (talk) 05:07, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

:::The claim has been restored. It is actually featured on page 6 of the report that's downloadable from the website listed as a source. But it can't possibly be true.--Jack Upland (talk) 04:54, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

::::[https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/bushfire-recovery/regional-delivery-program/greater-blue-mountains This] says "More than 60 per cent of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area was fire-affected and more than half of this burnt with high or very high severity."--Jack Upland (talk) 06:18, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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disparity between sidebar and article claims of area burnt

the sidebar claims that the burnt area was "Approximately 30000 square kilometer", and is entirely unsourced (also doesn't conform to the australian english style), while the body of the article sources the royal commission and claims "24.3 million hectares (60 million acres; 243,000 square kilometres; 94,000 square miles". personally i trust the latter value, given the fact that it has a source, and is much more congruent with of the papers i've read on the topic

the unsourced 30000km2 value is from fluffysandbox's edit on 08:42, 14 January 2023‎. i'm going to update the figure to the 243000km2 value for now, but just pointing this out in the talk

edit after checking: fluffysandbox is also a sockpuppet of a user who's got a history of making a load of erroneous incorrect edits 😔 You know i had to do it to em and i did what had to be done (talk) 04:04, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Effects on New Zealand

can I please add a short section to the article about the Bushfire's effects in New Zealand as we received significant and noticeable air pollution for a few days in 2020 as a result of the fires. Although this level of pollution is more normal in Australia, it is highly abnormal and unusual in New Zealand. There are also a plethora of pictures and News articles depicting the pollution. Yourmotherwasnthere (talk) 00:04, 8 February 2025 (UTC)