All Hail the Rain in Australia!
Heavy rains have caused flash floods in large parts of fire-ravaged Australia, but they’re the answer to many people’s prayers nonetheless.
Climate change isn’t a pretty thing, but when relief comes from one of its disasters (what would formerly have been called “natural disasters”), the celebrants aren’t limited to people, at least from the looks of the pic here.
Craig,
Thank you for your kind thoughts, but please listen for once to the real victims of the Bush Fire tragedies for whom it is very annoying to have the real causes of these occurrences ignored so the media, environmental advocates and political opportunists can steal the spotlight.
The Australian Bush fires have very little to do with “climate change”!
The causes have a lot to do with naturally recurring weather patterns and combinations of factors totally unrelated to climate change.
Australia is a heavily urbanized nation. (40% of Australians live in just 2 cities, Sydney and Melbourne, while 90 per cent live in the country’s 18 cities of 100,000 people or more).
Australia is roughly the same size as the continental USA, so the rural population is very small and scattered.
Most Australians will only encounter a Forest fire on TV. The causes of this year’s disasters are not unusual. Australia has suffered far worse fires in the recent past.
Most of the problem in recent years have been caused by increasing encroachment of housing in timbered areas, increases in Native Trees, a lack of undergrowth clearance and fire prevention measures, poor planning etc.
Tragically, this year has witnessed an upsurge of arsonists, some possibly politically motivated.
Despite the Guardian’s frantic denials, the NSW police have charged 28 with deliberately lighting bushfires during the current fire season.
The number does not include the 19 individuals attested in Victoria or the 114 deliberately or maliciously lit in Queensland.
Infuriatingly, about 10-15% of bush fires each year are deliberately set alight by arsonists. These fires are among those which affect human habitation the most and are often the most difficult to bring under control.
Australia suffers from a lot less Forest/bush fires since the advent of white settlement. For real victims, watching the enormous focus of attention and public money be diverted into completely spurious “climate change” measures and not into the real causes of Forest?Bush fire prevention and management, is very heartbreaking.
So, Craig, please, please before you exploit these victims to exploit your own political or ideological agenda give a thought to their sensitivities.
Craig,
If you are genuinely interested in the 2020 Australian Forest/bush fires, I recommend to anyone the very well researched article in ‘the Hill’, by Rupert Darwall.
[ https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/478769-climate-religion-is-fueling-australias-wildfires ]