Wild fires and global warming The amazing, juvenile accusation from the Green Senator Bandt reveals the level of hysteria that climate alarmists are prepared to try to get greater government control of our lives. Bush fires have been an integral part of the climate of Australia for millions of years. In fact these events have even impacted the evolution of much of our botanical life. The ‘science’ peddled by these nitwits has shifted from being characterised as ‘global warming’, to ‘global climate change’ and now to ‘extreme weather’. In other words, any weather event is shamelessly and naively hitched to their cause. Extreme weather includes warming, floods, cyclones, hot days, cold days, snow, hail, heavy rain, no rain, strong wind, drought, in fact any weather phenomenon that is dynamic. That includes everything as our planet’s weather is highly dynamic and we at this moment in time experiencing just a fragment of that variation. Our media too conspires with the Greens, unable to resist sensationalising events to draw viewers. As for many people, our media is their window to the world, the world is being falsely portrayed as a place of frightening extremes. If you’re not interested in paleogeology or similar, at least read Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘I love a sunburnt country’. For the Greens to accuse Tony Abbott of causing or contributing to these fires is nothing short of ascientific, infantile, attention seeking, irresponsible tantrum behaviour. Just a sample of Australia’s recorded history of major wild fire events is summarised as follows: 1851 Victoria 5,000,000 hectares (ha) burned 1898 Victoria 260,000 ha burned 1938 – 9 Victoria 2,000,000 ha burned 1944 Victoria 1,000,000 ha burned 1960 – 61 Western Australia 360,000 ha burned 1974 – 5 Northern territory 117,000,000 ha burned 1983 Victoria 210,000 ha burned (Ash Wednesday) 1983 South Australia 200,000 ha burned 1984 – 5 New South Wales 3,500,000 ha burned 1993 – 4 New South Wales 800,000 ha burned 2002 – 3 Queensland 1,000,000 ha burned The Sydney 2013 fires burned 120,000 ha. The impact of wild fire upon humans includes destruction of homes, businesses, infrastructure, injury and death, and varies enormously, depending upon population, buildings, temperatures and humidity, ease of access, bush fuel levels, timing, equipment available, warnings etc at the time. To simplistically attribute these to human caused global warming is deceptive, misleading and highly irresponsible. Alan Harrison 18.10.13
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 03:03:38 +0000
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