Current Affairs Australian Bush Fires

[summerisle]

Some frightening videos coming out of Australia. What's the general opinion in Australia regarding the current emergency, and the government's policies regarding the domestic coal industry and climate change ?

 

[Barry Rathbone]

Anyone interested in a calmer analysis beyond the media "man made climate doom" cause headline, see below.

"It has become customary to see wildfires – either in Australia currently, the Amazon in August or last autumn’s serious fires in California – as evidence of runaway, accelerating global warming. Yet, contrary to the Greta-esque narrative that ‘the Earth is on fire’, the amount of land burned annually around the world by wildfire – as measured from Nasa satellite data – fell by around a quarter in the 17 years from 1998 to 2015. This was reported in a paper in Science Magazine two years ago, which mapped the change in incidence of fire across all continents. There were some parts of the world where the incidence of fire increased over that period, namely parts of northern Canada and Alaska, the US Mid West, parts (though far from all) the Amazon basin, southern Africa and a relatively small patch of central Australia. But this was more than offset by places where the incidence of fires reduced – most notably across large parts of West Africa, but also over most of Australia. "

Scott Morrison is right - Australia's bushfires aren't down to climate change | The Spectator

I have long since learned, not least from my interview with Al Gore published here in 2017 that the surest way to get called a climate change denier is to quote genuine science that runs counter to the hyperbolic ‘science’ spun by the likes of Gore, Extinction Rebellion and the global Greta...

blogs.spectator.co.uk

 

[Prevenger17]

Anyone interested in a calmer analysis beyond the media "man made climate doom" cause headline, see below.

"It has become customary to see wildfires – either in Australia currently, the Amazon in August or last autumn’s serious fires in California – as evidence of runaway, accelerating global warming. Yet, contrary to the Greta-esque narrative that ‘the Earth is on fire’, the amount of land burned annually around the world by wildfire – as measured from Nasa satellite data – fell by around a quarter in the 17 years from 1998 to 2015. This was reported in a paper in Science Magazine two years ago, which mapped the change in incidence of fire across all continents. There were some parts of the world where the incidence of fire increased over that period, namely parts of northern Canada and Alaska, the US Mid West, parts (though far from all) the Amazon basin, southern Africa and a relatively small patch of central Australia. But this was more than offset by places where the incidence of fires reduced – most notably across large parts of West Africa, but also over most of Australia. "

Scott Morrison is right - Australia's bushfires aren't down to climate change | The Spectator

I have long since learned, not least from my interview with Al Gore published here in 2017 that the surest way to get called a climate change denier is to quote genuine science that runs counter to the hyperbolic ‘science’ spun by the likes of Gore, Extinction Rebellion and the global Greta...

blogs.spectator.co.uk

My god, who put another coin in this whopper?

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Anyone interested in a calmer analysis beyond the media "man made climate doom" cause headline, see below.

"It has become customary to see wildfires – either in Australia currently, the Amazon in August or last autumn’s serious fires in California – as evidence of runaway, accelerating global warming. Yet, contrary to the Greta-esque narrative that ‘the Earth is on fire’, the amount of land burned annually around the world by wildfire – as measured from Nasa satellite data – fell by around a quarter in the 17 years from 1998 to 2015. This was reported in a paper in Science Magazine two years ago, which mapped the change in incidence of fire across all continents. There were some parts of the world where the incidence of fire increased over that period, namely parts of northern Canada and Alaska, the US Mid West, parts (though far from all) the Amazon basin, southern Africa and a relatively small patch of central Australia. But this was more than offset by places where the incidence of fires reduced – most notably across large parts of West Africa, but also over most of Australia. "

Scott Morrison is right - Australia's bushfires aren't down to climate change | The Spectator

I have long since learned, not least from my interview with Al Gore published here in 2017 that the surest way to get called a climate change denier is to quote genuine science that runs counter to the hyperbolic ‘science’ spun by the likes of Gore, Extinction Rebellion and the global Greta...

blogs.spectator.co.uk

lol You’re being very selective with which quotes to take from that article. What about this:

‘This is not to say that climate change has not increased the risk of wildfire in some places – some areas have seen an extension of the dry season accompanied by higher temperatures which promote the drying-out of vegetation. South Eastern Australia has endured an especially long drought over the past couple of years.’

Not like you to pick and choose what you wish to believe or broadcast you sweaty mess.

 

[McBain]

Anyone interested in a calmer analysis beyond the media "man made climate doom" cause headline, see below.

"It has become customary to see wildfires – either in Australia currently, the Amazon in August or last autumn’s serious fires in California – as evidence of runaway, accelerating global warming. Yet, contrary to the Greta-esque narrative that ‘the Earth is on fire’, the amount of land burned annually around the world by wildfire – as measured from Nasa satellite data – fell by around a quarter in the 17 years from 1998 to 2015. This was reported in a paper in Science Magazine two years ago, which mapped the change in incidence of fire across all continents. There were some parts of the world where the incidence of fire increased over that period, namely parts of northern Canada and Alaska, the US Mid West, parts (though far from all) the Amazon basin, southern Africa and a relatively small patch of central Australia. But this was more than offset by places where the incidence of fires reduced – most notably across large parts of West Africa, but also over most of Australia. "

Scott Morrison is right - Australia's bushfires aren't down to climate change | The Spectator

I have long since learned, not least from my interview with Al Gore published here in 2017 that the surest way to get called a climate change denier is to quote genuine science that runs counter to the hyperbolic ‘science’ spun by the likes of Gore, Extinction Rebellion and the global Greta...

blogs.spectator.co.uk

Tell that to the thousands of people who lost their homes this year Watts Up With Barry.com.

Absolute clown.

 

[cronullasharks]

Anyone interested in a calmer analysis beyond the media "man made climate doom" cause headline, see below.

"It has become customary to see wildfires – either in Australia currently, the Amazon in August or last autumn’s serious fires in California – as evidence of runaway, accelerating global warming. Yet, contrary to the Greta-esque narrative that ‘the Earth is on fire’, the amount of land burned annually around the world by wildfire – as measured from Nasa satellite data – fell by around a quarter in the 17 years from 1998 to 2015. This was reported in a paper in Science Magazine two years ago, which mapped the change in incidence of fire across all continents. There were some parts of the world where the incidence of fire increased over that period, namely parts of northern Canada and Alaska, the US Mid West, parts (though far from all) the Amazon basin, southern Africa and a relatively small patch of central Australia. But this was more than offset by places where the incidence of fires reduced – most notably across large parts of West Africa, but also over most of Australia. "

Scott Morrison is right - Australia's bushfires aren't down to climate change | The Spectator

I have long since learned, not least from my interview with Al Gore published here in 2017 that the surest way to get called a climate change denier is to quote genuine science that runs counter to the hyperbolic ‘science’ spun by the likes of Gore, Extinction Rebellion and the global Greta...

blogs.spectator.co.uk

Probably less burnt because all the bushlands been cleared for housing and mining.

There's always fires every summer but nothing of this sort of widespread ferocity. I've forgotten what rain is too with the worst drought i can recall and seen waterholes completely dry that have always had plenty of water in them.

The scenes from mallacoota yesterday were frightening

 

[McBain]

Anyone interested in a calmer analysis beyond the media "man made climate doom" cause headline, see below.

"It has become customary to see wildfires – either in Australia currently, the Amazon in August or last autumn’s serious fires in California – as evidence of runaway, accelerating global warming. Yet, contrary to the Greta-esque narrative that ‘the Earth is on fire’, the amount of land burned annually around the world by wildfire – as measured from Nasa satellite data – fell by around a quarter in the 17 years from 1998 to 2015. This was reported in a paper in Science Magazine two years ago, which mapped the change in incidence of fire across all continents. There were some parts of the world where the incidence of fire increased over that period, namely parts of northern Canada and Alaska, the US Mid West, parts (though far from all) the Amazon basin, southern Africa and a relatively small patch of central Australia. But this was more than offset by places where the incidence of fires reduced – most notably across large parts of West Africa, but also over most of Australia. "

Scott Morrison is right - Australia's bushfires aren't down to climate change | The Spectator

I have long since learned, not least from my interview with Al Gore published here in 2017 that the surest way to get called a climate change denier is to quote genuine science that runs counter to the hyperbolic ‘science’ spun by the likes of Gore, Extinction Rebellion and the global Greta...

blogs.spectator.co.uk

Probably less burnt because all the bushlands been cleared for housing and mining.

There's always fires every summer but nothing of this sort of widespread ferocity. I've forgotten what rain is too with the worst drought i can recall and seen waterholes completely dry that have always had plenty of water in them.

The scenes from mallacoota yesterday were frightening

Worst fires I can remember, and it was really bad in ‘94. This from last month and they’re still raging.

 

[Barry Rathbone]

Tell that to the thousands of people who lost their homes this year Watts Up With Barry.com.

Absolute clown.

I'm sure they understand that science demonstrating global fires reducing by 25% globally completely demolishes the fallacy it is a man made co2 effect.

Do focus, Coco

 

[cronullasharks]

I'm sure they understand that science demonstrating global fires reducing by 25% globally completely demolishes the fallacy it is a man made co2 effect.

Do focus, Coco

What % of forest has been cleared in that time bazzzz

 

[cronullasharks]

It's funny is it you weapon

 

[cronullasharks]

Worst fires I can remember, and it was really bad in ‘94. This from last month and they’re still raging.

I didn't click on a link that's headline was "scott morrison is right"

 

[Barry Rathbone]

It's funny is it you weapon

Your ignorance of stated science fact is hilarious your fume over facts chopping your irrational beliefs off at the knees cracks me up.

Go ed lad have another fit

 

[Barry Rathbone]

I didn't click on a link that's headline was "scott morrison is right"

Best thing to do if you want to stay in an echo chamber

 

[McBain]

I'm sure they understand that science demonstrating global fires reducing by 25% globally completely demolishes the fallacy it is a man made co2 effect.

Do focus, Coco

Did you read it? Because the report correlates Agriculture expansion with decline in man made fires. This report is full of holes!

The decrease has been largest in savannas and grasslands because of agricultural expansion and intensification. The decline of burned area has consequences for predictions of future changes to the atmosphere, vegetation, and the terrestrial carbon sink

Rainfall patterns explained much of the interannual variability in burned area but little of the long-term decline

Current global fire models were unable to predict the magnitude or spatial pattern of the observed decline in global burned area

However, global implications of changing agricultural management and the mechanisms that regulate fires in human-dominated landscapes remain poorly understood

Population, cropland area, and livestock density were important factors constraining landscape patterns of burning, yet the sign and magnitude of the spatial correlation coefficient between these variables and burned area varied across biomes and along gradients of tree cover (Fig. 4). All three indicators had negative spatial correlations with burned area in savannas and grasslands. Although these three variables had similar global structure, we found that the distribution of agricultural activity clearly modified burned area beyond population alone. For example, widespread agricultural waste burning in large parts of Asia generated a strong positive correlation between cropland and burned area. Similarly, livestock density and burned area were negatively correlated in the Brazilian Cerrado, as livestock may directly suppress fire activity by reducing fuel loads or altering fire management decisions. In tropical forests, population density and cropland were positively correlated with the spatial pattern of burned area, as humans have introduced fires for deforestation and agricultural management (7, 27). In boreal forests, we found a stronger positive relationship between population and burned area in Eurasia than North America, consistent with past work documenting high levels of human-driven fire activity in Russia (30). Trends in agricultural production and fire activity were also consistent at the national scale. The largest relative declines in GFED4s burned area occurred in countries with the largest increases in agricultural extent and production value (fig. S11).

Barry having another mare.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Did you read it? Because the report correlates Agriculture expansion with decline in man made fires. This report is full of holes!











Barry having another mare.

He’s used the devastating fires as an excuse to further his own misguided assertions. No mentions of the victims or environmental impact. Pretty abhorrent behaviour if you ask me.