Thanks for the good video Plantagenet. The taxpayer funded, sneering creep, Paul Barry, actually proves that Fitzsimmons is the main problem. He obviously hasn't got a clue about fire behaviour or fire management, and has been consistently rewarded for failure with more money for fire engines, waterbombers and bs. This takes away from sensible land management and leads to death and destruction.

Hi Mr O,

Maybe the fires happened as a result of hot dry weather and lots of combustible material. The smoke from the fires fertilised large areas of ocean off Australia's east coast. The resultant plankton trapped more of the solar radiation in the ocean surface. Over a period of many weeks the ocean surface heated, creating conditions more favourable for rainfall. Combined with other natural weather phenomena, eastern Australia has been getting quite a dousing as a result, but unfortunately not quite enough to quench the catastrophists' lust for doom.

Cheers

Yer thanks Mr O for the compliment.

Me Muver never thought I was too bright, that's probably why she stuck me fingers in the light socket and used me as an emergency bulb when the light blew.

Anyway, fires are out now. What's next to panic about?

Dan

diver dan,

The number of coronavirus victims in China is skyrocketing and Soot 'Beam up me Scotty' Morrison is really upset that he had to extend the ban on Chinese entering Australia.

That's what we should start panicking about!

"Don't worry", says Soot, "if there's a coronavirus outbreak once I lift the ban then you'll be able to find me in Hawaii."

Hmmm...

Maybe the arsonists are actually just doing the job that the government and other beaurecrats keep standing up and making excuses for not doing in the first place, and thus caused the problem.

They should've dealt with the issue themselves in the first place.
That is find a solution, not excuses.

The simple fact is this: if you don't get rid of accumulating fuel then eventually you get a disaster.

The 'excuses' for not backburning don't matter.
All that matters is that they didn't do it and didn't manage things properly.

What the point of government and authority if they're not even capable of doing what needs to be done?

Maybe a hamstung government and beaurecracy is worse than none at all.

As the National Match Association puts it, "Matches don't start fires, people do."

I wouldn't place too much weight on a 2008 AIC report. The general view is that good old fashioned lightning started a lot more of the (big) fires than arson.

Let's do the counter factual. If you took all the arsonists out of the equation, would the fires keep happening. You be the judge.