Thinking about Australian wildfires rationally, not emotionally

SUMMARY:

Australia is 

in the middle 

of its annual

fire season. 

It has been

an unusually 

bad season.

People cause 

most wild fires.

A small percentage

are deliberate arson.

Police revealed 

over 100 of the 

destructive fires 

that hit Queensland 

since September 

were deliberately lit.

About 100 people,

1/3 adults and

2/3 juveniles,

have been dealt with 

by Queensland police, 

for deliberately 

setting fires.

Over 200 people 
have been arrested
across Australia:
https://summit.news/2020/01/06/nearly-200-people-arrested-across-australia-for-deliberately-starting-bushfires/

One 16-year-old boy 

started a fire that 

burned 14 homes 

in central Queensland 

and he was dealt with 

under the state’s 

Youth Justice Act.

Is there 

any evidence 

that people will 

start more fires 

because it’s

slightly warmer 

than a year ago ?

Of course not.

Fires are more severe 

if there is more fuel 

for them.

The aborigines conducted

frequent controlled burnings 

of the scrub on the forest floor.

They did that to prevent 

continent-wide 

bush fires, that they knew 

about, from thousands 

of years’ experience.

In 1642:

Abel Tasman wrote of 

the smoke in the sky 

and the scorched trees 

wherever his expedition 

landed. 

In 1770:

Captain James Cook 

described the 

same conditions.

This deliberate

burning created

grassland 

landscapes 

that dominated 

pre-European 

Australia.

Four methods 

of hindering 

the spread 

of bush fires:

BURNING:

(1) Prescribed burning

GRAZING:

(2) Livestock grazing, 

SLASHING:

(3) Mechanical 

clearance of the 

scrub brush

creating firebreaks; 

DAMMING:

(4) Damming streams, 

to keep well-stocked 

reservoirs, with enough

water to put out fires.

POLICING:

(5) Policing the forests

to prevent arson, some

that may be started 

by "environmentalist

extremists" trying to 

raise awareness”
of global warming. 

Is there any evidence 

that fuel has been 

allowed to build up, 

to keep the forests 

“natural”, and 

prescribed burns 

have been reduced 

by regulations ?

Yes there is.

( both were also true 

in California, USA )

Has 
there been 

drought in 
Australia

before ?

Of course !

Australia 

had record 

hot weather 

the late 1800s, 

that the corrupt 

Bureau of 

Meteorology

decided no one 

needs to know

about that

— apparently 

they feel that

Australians 

were not capable 

of reading 

a thermometer 

in the late 1800s,

so all the 

newspaper

articles 

at the time

were wrong !

The climate 

of our planet 

is the best 

it has been 

for humans, 

animals and 

plants in 800 

to 1,000 years — 

since before the 

relatively cold 

Little Ice Age 

centuries.

If you want 

to blame fires 

in Australia

on the wonderful 

overall climate 

of our planet, 

then you are 

a science denier.

DETAILS:

Since 

November 2019, 

fires have struck 

various regions 

of the state 

of New South Wales, 

destroying thousands 

of buildings and killing 

dozens of people.

( Note: 

"Buildings" or 

"properties"

will usually include 

more than just 

homes, stores

and offices --

backyard sheds,

garages and 

chicken coops

would be 

counted too. )

"Bush fires" 

are common 

in Australia,

Of course

the climate 

change 
alarmists 

always blame

man-made 

global warming.

According to many 

people investigating 

the bush fires, 

arson is to blame 

for much devastation 

caused during this 

bush fire season

-- more than usual.

Other causes for the fires 

include lightning strikes 

and a natural weather 

phenomenon called Dipole, 

both of them unrelated to 

man-made climate change.

Environmentalist 

‘green’ policies 

prevent land owners 

from clearing 

their own vegetation 

to protect themselves.

All state and federal 

bush fire studies, 

over the past decade, 

had recommended 

much increased 

“prescribed burning”.

Prescribed burning

is a hazard reduction --

burning off dry brush, 

in a controlled fashion, 

so it does not fuel 

big summer bush fires.

The bush fires raging 

across Australia 

have already killed 

hundreds of millions 

of animals.

In the southern 

seaside resort town 

of Mallacoota, in the 

East Gippsland 

region of Victoria,

over 4,000 people 

were forced 

to take refuge 

on the beach, 

and in boats, 

viewing an 

"apocalyptic" 

scene, with a 

dark orange sky.

Rescue teams 

are still struggling 

to reach people

in some rural areas.

Reality is 

that suitable 

conditions 

for bush fires 

do happen 

every year 

in that part 

of the world. 

Every year, 

It will always 

get dry enough 

for bush fires, 

( there comes 

a point where brush 

can’t get any drier. )

The worst 

recorded fire 

in Australia 

was in 1851

The CO2 level 

at the time

was allegedly

 "perfect",

yet five million 

hectares went up 

in flames !

And no one blamed

"climate change".