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Blame Game Begins As Australia Searches For Wildfire Answers.(enviro alert)
AFP ^ | 2009-02-12 | AFP

Posted on 02/12/2009 5:41:38 PM PST by GSP.FAN

Bushfire expert David Packham at Melbourne's Monash University has blamed green groups, saying their opposition to controlled clearance in forests known as burn-offs had allowed leaves, bark and dead wood to build up for decades, providing fuel for the fires.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: arson; controlledburns; greenmovement; wildfires
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Miranda Devine also railed against "greenies," who she said had stopped politicians and bureaucrats from taking steps to reduce the fire hazard with their insistence that forests remain pristine.

"If politicians are intent on whipping up a lynch mob to divert attention from their own culpability, it is not arsonists who should be hanging from the lamp-posts but greenies," she wrote.

Heh HeH i like this girl Miranda no bull straight to the point

1 posted on 02/12/2009 5:41:38 PM PST by GSP.FAN
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To: GSP.FAN
Pity is it`ll take a catastrophe like this to spur the American sheeple to see the light about the watermelons here.
2 posted on 02/12/2009 5:44:29 PM PST by nomad
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To: GSP.FAN
Too much oxygen and not enough CO2. Seems pretty clear to me.
3 posted on 02/12/2009 5:45:20 PM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: Paladin2

Tut Tut did you not get the memo Carbon Dioxide bad.


4 posted on 02/12/2009 5:59:02 PM PST by GSP.FAN
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