Posted on 01/07/2020 7:04:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Wildfires are raging in Australia. Were going to get an earful about global warming again because Australia has never been hot or prone to wildfires until Donald Trump won the 2016 election, but thats a separate matter. ABC News peddled some straight fake news about the natural disaster, superimposing the entire continent onto the United States to show the scale of the disaster. The problem is that its not accurate. As some, like Washington Free Beacon reporter Alex Griswold, noted this claim is contradicted in the ABC News article [emphasis mine]:
The raging fires in Australia have burned over 12.35 million acres of land -- with at least 24 people killed and more than 2,000 homes destroyed by the blazes, officials said.
The size of the fires across the country are twice as large as the state of Maryland and bigger than several other states, including Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
ABC News getting dragged for this insane map they made up is your moment of zen pic.twitter.com/KgziUlqVr7 Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) January 7, 2020
What's funny is this map is contradicted by the actual piece, which says the wildfires are about the size of Maryland https://t.co/JOOPqaGfmn Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) January 7, 2020
Can someone mount this map on the under barrel of that AR-15? https://t.co/p4pqhtBaPx Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 7, 2020
This is a very...fake and bad map. https://t.co/psesEY3oR4 Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 7, 2020
LMFAO. Ummmmm the fires are absolutely horrendous but that much of Australia is definitely ***not*** on fire, you idiots. Wheres that CNN disinformation specialist dude who was pissed off at the Babylon Bee satire articles? https://t.co/ximZB7DizJ JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) January 7, 2020
Yeah, that map is garbage. And once again, we have another reason to doubt the talking points about global warming peddled by closet communists masquerading as environmentalists: they make stuff uplike this map. NBC News even had to add the global warming spin in its segment but also torpedoed the claim that the entire nation is on fire. Its not. But some 500 million animals have been killed as well from these fires, which is also tragic.
ABC is Disney
So who is paying all these ‘strailians to set the fires?
Also much of the causes of the fires is the failure of local governments to do control burns of the underbrush to eliminate the fuel that causes these fires.
RE: close to 100 people arrested for arson in these fires...But the AP, of course, attributes to Globull Warming. Fake News DeLuxe.
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I am a man-made Climate Change skeptic myself.
But lets look at this more clearly were the ORIGINAL Bushfires caused by these arsonists? Or was it caused by the extremely hot weather?
It could be that the original Bushfires were containable but these arsonists actually EXACERBATED the catastrophe by deliberately lighting even more fires.
A couple nights ago, The Weather Channel had some moron on who said the Australian fires proved climate change because their *winter* temperatures were up to 104.
Was one of the human fire starters named Greta?
So, the picture of the charcoal briquet all toasty around the edges is wrong? Someone get grrrrrrreta on the phone STAT!
It is an absurd number. For example, they believe 8000 koalas were directly killed in NSW, which is 30% of the Koala population.
THe 480 million number comes from extrapolation of studies showing how clearing land used by animals would damage the population. In other words, they beleive that many will die from starvation and lack of habitat for long-term survival.
There is also a 1 billion number, which actually includes INSECTS. These estimates include birds, frogs, reptiles, as well as the cute animals we think of.
Farm animals have been killed, a lot of them, when not released before the fires swept through.
BTW, there are 50 million kangaroos, something that until these fires was called a ‘PLAGUE”, as they were destroying everything. Killing half the kangaroos would be good for Australia.
A high proportion of bushfires in Australia are caused by arsonists - that’s true every year. These people are a scourge.
But that still leaves a significant number caused by natural factors and most of the biggest fires did probably start naturally because they generally start in isolated areas which is why nobody gets on top of them before they get out of control.
So yeah - you’re right basically. Most of the fires that started all this are probably natural - but once they start, the crazies come out - and it’s also possible some are being lit deliberately for other reasons - we know terrorists have talked about doing it - they could be. Most perpetrators don’t get caught, so the fact we haven’t caught any doesn’t mean they can’t be out there. Presumably they are doing to be more careful about not being caught that some of the crazies.
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