Chris,

Nobody in their right mind would suggest there is no point in addressing environmental concerns which includes climate change. It is as basic as making your bed and keeping your room tidy. The over-riding dispute is HOW we address climate change. What gets lost in the Australian debate is -
- The climate has always changed - it was not a recent discovery by the Greens. (They have always been slow learners) We have lived through much warmer times and also lived through ice ages.
- It is futile and taking hubris to extremes to think people can control the climate.
- The Paris Accord is a dud - allowing the two greatest emitters in China and India to add more emissions annually than all of the rest of the world could save through emissions reduction.
- We are dreaming if we think Australia alone can make a difference whilst India and China continue unabated.
- We are dreaming if we think Australia can reduce bushfires other than by good land management. (They have bushfires in Canada inside the 60th Parallel - no droughts or high temp's there)
- Any policy adoption that cannot specify and therefore achieve the outcome is negligence. Virtue signalling is totally unacceptable.
- Common sense must override any dream to 'lead the world'. Every other country could not give a jot if Australia chooses a path to destruction.

OK Chris, here it is.

Can any sane person really believe that a 1.5 C increase could make fires so much hotter that a passing fire could melt the alloy components of a vehicle?

Of course not, it takes fuel & a blast of air to make a fire that hot, just like we have in Greeny locked up forests full of fuel, & the occasional year when we get strong westerlies.

Did you notice where the fires started & then raged. It wasn't out west where the ambient temperatures were over 40 C, but in the much cooler south east, where the fuel laden national parks, [disgraces], are located.

It doesn't take very much grey matter to analyse this information, & come to the correct conclusion. It is the fuel load in these disgusting national parks, the dry conditions & the strong westerlies that caused this destruction, aided by council refusal to allow property owners to clear sufficient bush to make their homes safe.

It doesn't help that we have a large number of fool tree change people, who want gum, trees brushing their homes. Global warming had as much to do with these fires as it did back in the 30s.

Interesting points Hasbeen.

no doubt that land management practices will need to change.

Thanks Hasbeen for highlighting the location of the bushfires in the cooler SE regions which also happen to be regions more populated and more accessible for arsonists. Nobody talks about arson despite the most authoritative research based on Fire Service research showing 13% of all bushfires are arson together with another 37& which are deemed 'suspicious'. That is, half of all fires could be deliberately lit. You need population for that which you don't have in hotter regions further west.

the warmist propaganda continues today in the SMH. It's headline about 130mm of rain and 'worse yet to come'. Only the warmist could try and mislead people that more rain is not 'best to come'.

still no word from Bom about their advice to Government that we would have no decent rain until April. Oh well, on with the next dud prediction that fits the warmist fantasy and narrative.

I don't see much in the way of rejecting this GW CC for what it truly is;
A SCAM, of international proportion.
No-one wants to accept that we are simply going through a warming part of a climate sine curve the planet has been going through all it's life.
The data has been manipulated to show something to scare people into giving money to these scammers, by way of suggesting the world will end if we don't spend money on new technology to reduce this gas which is sold to us as a 'killer' gas, CO2.
We need CO2, the more the better, time past the planet was warmer, and grapes grew in England, Greenland was named because of it's 'green' landscape.
No we are not causing any harm to the planet.
We are not responsible for anything.
We do not need to give away these trillions to thieves and con-men selling doom and gloom.
How many times do I have to say it; We humans, are too insignificant to cause ANY change to something the size of the Earth.
Stop believing the BS, and start looking into things yourselves.
Your already on the internet, well punch in some questions, go on YOU TUBE, do something, and you too will begin to see the truth, not just the facts.
Start with these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVc-Y-mJ_uY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v8ZPil4wbs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmUS7PAWFw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZdm-w6FmHo

Something to start you off, and there is plenty more, and increasing by the day.
So the alarmists are going to HAVE TO come around or they will look like fools in the not too distant future.