Hey AyameTan,

"Armchair, please stop comparing children who don't want to clean their rooms with a violent mugger."

That doesn't even make sense, so obviously I'd never say that, do you make false claims often?
You criticise religion (so do I sometimes) but perhaps there may be some parts of it that you may actually learn something from.

- At least when I do it's on a basis of merit..

"Homework is hard. Chores are hard. Have you tried solving algebra? It only gets harder. You have a choice, though."

Are you suggesting I've never done homework, chores or algebra before?

Are you suggesting I never went to school in this country, or that I never got smacked unfairly myself as a kid and wouldn't know what that feels like, or that I never had to suffer the indignity of having to clean up my own room all by myself?

You've lost me, sorry.
I'm not even sure what your talking about anymore.
- It sure aint about bushfires...

The author, is right in his assertions.
We can all speculate and try to deflect and apportion blame to a convenient and un-provable source.
If we remove ideology and subjectivity, and look at it clearly and pragmatically, removing all the parties who stand to gain or profit by this GW, CC fallacy.
Looking back as far back as you like, you will see all the cycles the earth goes through.
To say that the temperature is hotter now than previously, is a very long bow.
The records will show that all the factors affecting climate are nothing new.
What is new, I believe, is that the weather patterns have shifted to the East.
The kind of temperatures the East coast is experiencing, is pretty much what we in the West, have gone through previously at around this time of year.
I don't know who or what have taken these readings and where and when they were taken.
All these questions are relevant, because all we get is a lot of 'data' and told this is means we have caused the Earth to be polluted, and it's ALL our fault.
Well I'm sorry, I for one am not buying it.
Until I see actual and incontrovertible proof, I will keep asking questions, but I cannot accept the current hard sell I am seeing.
When I see something being pushed a little too hard or harder than is reasonable, it means it is missing something, and so to make up for it, extra effort is needed to sell it.

Well, no surprises there, the left's in full swing doing what they do best, being idiots even when they lose everything !
What on Earth are they blaming the PM for ? He didn't build their homes amongst the Gumtrees. Even with their ar$es on fire they manage to be true morons !

Not a bad opinion piece. Plainly written and generally correct.
Environmentalism and expressing concern for "the environment" is such an easy option for the unremarkable lacking in valuable skills. It makes them "important". Fear of worthlessness in a free marketplace motivates these types to advocate for state control of all activity so a place might be created where they'll be needed.
What we're seeing are the inevitable failures of the ideas of these who thought they could create a future from expressing virtuous ideals.
It'll take many more failures yet.

Oh, and it's Burning off. "Back burning" is just a method of fire fighting where a new line of fire is started ahead of a fire front to burn back toward it starving it of fuel.

Jamo, ALTRAV and individual make valid comments. I have checked the last 20 years of Coroners/Inquiries Reports over last 20 years and they all focus on fuel loads and a need for better management/prescribed burning). Jamo's comment of burn off and back burn is useful. To the authors credit, I did not know the term prescribed burn, which is the regulatory term and is what Jamo terms as 'burning back', I suppose the media use back burn to simplify things (for them, what would you expect). So lets hope prescribed burning becomes the Macquarie word for 2020, rather than some obscure, hip slang word as usual!! For those interested in the "Climate Change cultist" view, check out the BBC and Sky UK news feeds... the fires are payback for Australia's love of Coal and SCOMO... its unbelievable. I even saw a feEd that Kim Kardashian is Twitering…... Bloody hell, first Greta and now the Kardashian are this worLds font of knowledge..... Reminds me of Spencer Tracys last movie " Its a MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD!".

Allison, your posting is probably one of the more simple, sane and informative so far on this topic.
A welcome change from the norm.