I’m behind on this story.
Why so many cases of arson?
How devastating is this fire long term to Australia?
As usual, I read somewhere that it will affect the global food supply but I have No Idea if that’s true or not.
I know nothing about Australia and so cannot give an informed opinion on the subject.
High intensity fire is not good but it also depends on how they restore afterwards.
“ How devastating is this fire long term to Australia?”
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The fires will continue until much of the underlying brush has been burned away. These brush fires are not new. They’ve been occurring since the beginning of current Australia geographics which was a very long time ago. It’s natures way of cleansing the landscape.
“How devastating is this fire long term to Australia?”
Long term, Australia will be better off for it. The Flora will come back even more lush and the dangerous underbrush will be gone.
“As usual, I read somewhere that it will affect the global food supply...”
The Wallobies, beef and veal are already cooked, and just need to be Sauced with some BBQ sauce. Who eats Kiwis and mangoes?
Good question. I wonder if that's the faint sulfurous stench of Islam I detect. Or could it be the slight whiff of raw sewage usually associated with the Watermelon Leftist Lunatics pushing this Global Warming BS. Naw, it must be those danged Mormons again.
I understand the Australian fires back in the ‘70s were 3 times larger than this one. Climate change is a crock. It’s all about land management, both there and here.
Why so many cases of arson?
There aren't. It's just an incredibly lazy effort by Dembsy to harvest a few Townhall clicks.
There's no evidence that climate change caused the fires, but his claim that
"law enforcement determined that the blazes were intentionally set, and 183 arsonists have been arrested for the crime so far"
is just a lie.
There was a report of 183 fire-related infractions in NSW but if you do the least bit of research you find that:
" Police have charged at least 24 people for intentionally starting bushfires in the state of New South Wales, according to a statement the New South Wales Police released Monday.NSW Police have taken legal action against 183 people, 40 of whom are juveniles, for fire-related offenses since November 8, the statement said. The legal actions range from cautions to criminal charges.
Out of those 183 people, 53 have received cautions or criminal charges for failing to comply with a total fire ban and 47 are accused of discarding a lit cigarette or match on land, according to the police statement..."
That's 24 arsonists, not 183.
As to the other regions of the country:
Victoria: "Despite massive fires causing chaos in Victoria this season, authorities are treating only one blaze as suspicious."
Queensland: "The Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) said 3 per cent of the bushfires in the state this season were deliberately lit."
South Australia: "None of SA's deadliest or most destructive fires are being treated as suspicious."
Western Australia: "...in Western Australia, police launched Strike Force Vulcan on 25 November and have so far charged seven adults and five juveniles with deliberately lighting bushfires."
Spreading obvious disinformation really hurts the credibility of climate change skeptics.
I wonder what the “Mohammed Quotient” is for those arsonists?
Yes, my question is, what’s in it for them? Is setting brushfires that much fun?