"Are the bushfires a result of climate warming?"

No!

ttbn,

<<"Are the bushfires a result of climate warming?"

No!>>

'No' is your assertion, i.e. your opinion. Please give us your reasons for this negative assessment.

The climate hysterics and fear-mongers raving on about unprecedented hot weather have nothing to say about the extremely low temperatures occuring in Adelaide at the moment: 23 today, with forecasts of 24 Friday; 25 Saturday; 21 Sunday; 22 Monday.

In the MIDDLE OF SUMMER, in the hottest, driest state!. When are people going to realise that we are simply having an unusual Summer this year; it's not the end of the world?

OzSpen,

If you still need reasons, you are a very dull fellow. All the reasons, have been spelt out many times by many different people. You don't want to accept them, so don't ask me to go over them again?

No. We've always had bushfires!

However, the severity and the enduring nature of a drought its duration and severity, the worst in living memory, may mean we have to factor in human-caused climate change.

The climate changes and is controled by the sun.

When it waxes (increased solar activity) the joint warms up and the ice retreats.

, When it wanes (reduced solar activity) the joint cools and the ice advances.

This has been the pattern for time immemorial. And changes around every 200 years like a solar pulse?

That said, what cannot happen is record temperatures, ice melts etc when we are in a waning phase as we have been since the mid-seventies. (NASA)

One notes that the biggest investment house on the planet announced in this morning's news that it is getting out of thermal coal and where it goes, with its trillions, all other sane and rational investors will follow!

Moncton and co can jump up and down go bananas and rattle the cage in insane fury? But that won't change what the rational investors decide how to invest their money!

So, is there any other substitutes for thermal or metallurgical coal? And the income we a trading nation earn from holes in our dry parched ground? In a word yes. TBC.
Alan B.

Peter, you are behind the times, the ground has shifted under you.
It will be a shock to read the links and I suggest you follow them up
to the original papers.
To echo Bill Clinton "IT IS THE SUN STUPID !" No offense intended !

http://calderup.wordpress.com/category/3b-the-svensmark-hypothesis/

Helinski Times http://tinyurl.com/y3h3qpa5

http://tinyurl.com/y23a6nev

The papers produced by Turku & Kobe Universities has caused a storm
of rejection by the establishment, but they cannot deny the science
behind it. However it is something more important than science, it
is History that is supporting the current warming period.
History cannot be denied and the current warming arrived right on schedule.
It is roughly a 600 year cycle.
Just 300 years after the Maunder Minimum.
Just 1100 years after the Vikings settled on Greenland.