Australia burning has nothing to do with climate change
That would be a distortion of the facts. Police in New South Wales released a statement disclosing that since Nov. 8, 2019, 183 people, including 40 juveniles, have been charged with 205 bushfire-related offenses. Of the 183, 24 people have been charged with deliberately setting fires. According to police, of the 183, another “53 people have had legal actions for allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban,” and an additional “47 people have had legal actions for allegedly discarding a lighted cigarette or match on land.”
There are, on average, 62,000 fires in Australia every year. Only a very small number strike far from populated areas and satellite studies tell us that lightning is responsible for only 13 per cent. Not so the current fires threatening to engulf Queensland and NSW. There were no lightning strikes on most of the days when the fires first started in September. Although there have been since, these fires – joining up to create a new form of mega-fire – are almost all man-made.
What are you basing that on?
We've having the hottest years on record and longer drought periods... the droughts contribute to a drier environment, and the warmer climate increases the chance of lightning which is the primary cause of the current bushfires.
The predicted demise of Glacier National Park’s glaciers by 2020 seems to have been premature, and the signs predicting their complete melt by 2020 are being rewritten to reflect that.
What are you basing that on?
We've having the hottest years on record and longer drought periods... the droughts contribute to a drier environment, and the warmer climate increases the chance of lightning which is the primary cause of the current bushfires.
I'm basing it on the couple hundred people they've arrested for setting fires in Australia. Thats the primary cause if the current brush fires.
There were no lightning strikes on most of the days when the fires first started in September
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