Stop cherry-picking your information and learn something for once you Ignorant yank religiofool. Bushfires are how Australian bush regenerates. You aren't telling me anything new, but BECAUSE of global warming, the bushfire season is now longer and hotter than ever before, creating fires on a scale that has never been seen before. The bushfires are so bad that they have turned NZ's glaciers brown, causing them to melt faster.Walker wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 1:24 pmAlways entertaining, rarely a nuisance.vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:53 amNot to be a nuisance, but could you please explain what the FUCK that actually means??
What it means is, you gotta burn the bush before the bush burns you.Just as interesting is this factual tidbit that, again, the far-left media chooses to ignore via Australian scientist, Tim Flannery:
“Fire suppression became the dominant paradigm in fire management leading to a significant shift away from traditional burning practices. A 2001 study found that the disruption of traditional burning practices and the introduction of unrestrained logging meant that many areas of Australia were now prone to extensive wildfires especially in the dry season.[23] A similar study in 2017 found that the removal of mature trees by Europeans since they began to settle in Australia may have triggered extensive shrub regeneration which presents a much greater fire fuel hazard.[24] Another factor was the introduction of Gamba grass imported into Queensland as a pasture grass in 1942, and planted on a large scale from 1983. This can fuel intense bushfires, leading to loss of tree cover and long-term environmental damage.”
In short, and very similar to what continues to take place in California and elsewhere, the primary cause of large brushfires in Australia is directly attributed to poor resource management. Historically, Australia’s Aborigines routinely engaged in annual control burns across the massive continent. When these burns were all but eliminated, allowing new growth underbrush along with the introduction of non-native grasses by European settlers, the opportunity for more damaging brushfire seasons intensified.
And no, yank genius, Australia and New Zealand are not the same country. Even NZ has become a lot more 'flammable'.
I don't even know what you are arguing about. Nothing you have copy-pasted has anything to do with the FACT that Australia's bushfire season is longer and hotter than ever before and the FACT that AUSTRALIA is getting steadily hotter.
So now, when Australia's average temperature gets even hotter thanks to vegetation loss, you science-denying religioturds will come back with 'He he, there's no such thing as global warming--temperatures are increasing because of vegetation loss he he he...'
Ummm, listen genius. You are only contradicting your own 'argument'. What you are saying is that humans are causing these disasters because of their own stupidity and vegetation destruction i.e. causing global warming. Duh! You do realise that trees take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen don't you? Why do you think people are being told to plant more trees in an effort to counter global warming?
But then you science-denying arseholes would hate that idea too, because you think money and out-of-control agriculture are far more important than a habitable planet.
You do realise that facts are facts, and they don't change depending on political persuasion don't you?
However, Australia’s climate has warmed by more than one degree Celsius over the past century, causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves and droughts.[23] Eight of Australia's ten warmest years on record have occurred since 2005.[24] A study in 2018 conducted at Melbourne University found that the major droughts of the late 20th century and early 21st century in southern Australia are "likely without precedent over the past 400 years".[25] Across the country, the average summer temperatures have increased leading to record breaking hot weather, [26] with the early summer of 2019 the hottest on record.[27]
Heatwaves and droughts dry out the undergrowth and create conditions that increase the risk of bushfires. This has become worse in the last 30 years.[28] Since the mid-1990s, southeast Australia has experienced a 15% decline in late autumn and early winter rainfall and a 25% decline in average rainfall in April and May. Rainfall for January to August 2019 was the lowest on record in the Southern Downs (Queensland) and Northern Tablelands (New South Wales) with some areas 77% below the longterm average.[29]
More than a decade ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that ongoing anthropogenic climate change was virtually certain to increase in intensity and frequency of fires in Australia – a conclusion that has been endorsed in numerous reports since.[23] In November 2019, the Australian Climate Council published a report titled This is Not Normal[30] which also found the catastrophic bushfire conditions affecting NSW and Queensland in late 2019 have been aggravated by climate change.[31] According to Nerilie Abram writing in Scientific American "the link between the current extremes and anthropogenic climate change is scientifically undisputable".[23]