Posted on 01/06/2020 6:41:07 AM PST by eccentric
Authorities in Australia have arrested close to 200 people for deliberately starting the bushfires that have devastated the country, yet the media and celebrities continue to blame “climate change” for the disaster.
The fires have caused at least 18 deaths, destroyed thousands of homes, millions of hectares of land and killed hundreds of millions of animals.
A total of 183 people have been arrested by police in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania for lighting bushfires over the last few months, figures obtained by news agency AAP show.
In New South Wales, 24 people were arrested for arson, risking prison sentences of up to 25 years.
In Queensland, police concluded that 103 of the fires had been deliberately lit, with 98 people, 67 of them juveniles, having been identified as the culprits.
“The link between arsonists and the deadly fires that devastate Australia every summer is well known and well documented, with the rate of deliberately lit fires escalating rapidly during the school holiday period,” reports Breitbart’s Simon Kent. Around 85 per cent of bushfires are caused by humans either deliberately or accidentally starting them, according to Dr Paul Read, co-director of the National Centre for Research in Bushfire and Arson.
“About 85 per cent are related to human activity, 13 per cent confirmed arson and 37 per cent suspected arson,” he said. “The remainder are usually due to reckless fire lighting or even just children playing with fire.”
Read also highlighted the link between school holidays and kids starting fires, commenting, “School holidays are a prime time for fire bugs, but especially over summer.” The kids have got time to get out there and light, and the most dangerous adults choose hot days.”
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Any common denominators among the suspects?
Yet again, liberals are exposed as lying hypocrites who ignore facts in order to pursue their nefarious agenda. Liberals cannot be trusted. Ever.
WHY would any sane humans do this?
"Youths"
That cannot be true!
All those celebrities at the Golden Globs said it was Climate Change!...................
Tie them to wooden poles directly in the path of the fires they started.
To further their "Climate Change/Global Warming" hoax.
Guardian: On the arsonist’s trail: inside Australia’s worst bushfire catastrophe
One day in 2009, fires swept across Victoria, leaving 173 dead. It became known as Black Saturday. When it emerged that not all of these disasters were natural, local detectives sprang into action.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/24/arson-black-saturday-australia-worst-bushfire-chloe-hooper
Sydney Morning Herald: Arson, mischief and recklessness: 87 per cent of fires are man-made
https://www.smh.com.au/national/arson-mischief-and-recklessness-87-per-cent-of-fires-are-man-made-20191117-p53bcl.html
ABC AU: Bushfires deliberately lit by 'cunning, versatile criminals', more common in school holidays, expert warns
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-22/bushfire-arson-warning-ahead-of-school-holidays/11528192
Australia bush fires: Teenage firefighter charged with deliberately starting blazes
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/australia-bush-fires-firefighter-charged-with-deliberately-starting-blazes-a4297636.html
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Australia will recover and they WILL find some of those arsonists.
They would be tried for murder.
This MIGHT bring back the death penalty for the entire country.
They just need to establish fire-free zones and have everybody turn in their matches.
Bush’s fault. :P
They’re all climate change activist.
NYT: Aboriginal Hunters’ Fires Help Restore an Australian Desert (Feb. 8, 2019)
These must be the Climate Change Deniers!
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Related story.
More hazard-reduction burns not the answer, experts warn:
Sounds familiar.
To get rid of the ten pound spiders.
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