More irredeemable drivel from a soft science type trying to buff up their Virtue quotient with her mates, to raise Global Warming is false and evil.

The current fires and consequent damages and deaths are due to Greens and other adult children stopping the RFS carrying out effective back-burns after two very wet years, a very wet first half this year followed by some dry months on top of a decade on Byzantine and purposely obstructive Green-Tape.

After 25 years of warnings about global warming, all Lynn can point to is a set of bushfires that started much earlier in the season than usual. Granted they are large, but so were the 1939 fires and Ash Wednesday bushfires in Vic - and there was considerably greater loss of life back then. After three very wet seasons followed by a dry season what did anyone expect in the Australian bush?

It is unfortunate that Lyn has written this article, especially on OLO because it will drag all the trolls and shills out of the woodwork screaming that there is no such thing as AGW and it is all a plot and so on.
It really is a waste of time and effort to bring it to the attention of the sheeple when there are people who actually make a living from muddying the waters on behalf of big business.
While I am in complete agreement with Lyn about climate change, it really is inevitable and is not going to be stopped now.
There are too many people who do not want to see "their way of life change" ( like the US way of life is not negotiable) and if they admit AGW it will mean the end of their macmansions, SUV's, multiple giant TV's and a suburban paradise life.
They are easily swayed by the promises of bought and paid for pollies and vote for the last big offer in the auction/election.
So there will be no change and therefore no action.
The best that can be done is to find a good place to hide out and build a "lifeboat" for survival and hope to last as long as possible WTSHTF.
Good luck.

Other than talking what is being proposed to 'do something about climate change'? If human activity is causing climate change then it must have an enormous momentum. It won't suddenly stop happening because you switch off the light. Such simplistic thinking is part of the reason the issue has such a polarising effect. Lefties are trying to show how morally superior they are and the non-lefties are determined not to be preached to. Stop Stupidity; Now!

More tedious liturgy and double standards from the church of climatology.

You would have thought by now and after the disastrous bush fires that ravaged Victoria, nobody living in the bush, would be allowed to live without six foot high colourbond fence around the house, (the first line of defense, around the house proper, or with roof top sprinklers installed, (the second line of defense.) I listened in spellbound disbelief to one gentleman complaining, that he didn't have time to fuel up connect and start the pump or the genie!
After the fire storm has started is already far too late.
Besides, petrol and diesel can sour and or evaporate, not so gas!
And these things need to be run a couple of times a month to ensure the battery,(long life marine) is fully charged and ready. and or, the backup compressed air tank is fully charged!
A steel frame ought to be mandatory, along with won't burn bricks in all new housing! Timber might look nice, but if it burns it should be banned!
Electric shutters would also assist, in preventing the heat entering the home. Some of which, along with the rooftop sprinklers, could be remotely controlled, with your mobile phone!
One would think the insurance industry would offer low cost fiance packages to install some or all of the above, as it would quite massively reduce the claims,(tens of billions) they might have to cough up with in the future.
As for talking about climate change, the time for talk is already been and gone Lyn!
What we need now is action.
None of which, (cheaper than coal thorium, broad scale very low water use algae farming, in-house biogas and power production) need ever harm or slow our economy!
And broad scale low water use algae farming/bio-fuel production, is exactly what we need to save both the Murray and all those who currently depend on it for their sustenance or livelihoods!
To reiterate, none of what is proposed, would ever harm or slow our economy!
In fact, just the opposite!
Rhrosty.