Dear Alan B,

You claimed: "Cool burning of a hectare of grass, puts as much carbon into the atmosphere as 6,000 cars."

What a crock.

Native grasses per hectare run at about 50 tonnes of biomass. About half would get burnt in a fire. Cars run at under 5 tonne of CO2 per year.
http://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passenger-vehicle#:~:text=typical%20passenger%20vehicle%3F-,A%20typical%20passenger%20vehicle%20emits%20about%204.6%20metric%20tons%20of,around%2011%2C500%20miles%20per%20year.

So we are talking about 10 cars not 6,000.

I invite you to either retract such a ridiculous claim or provide evidence to substantiate it.

steele redux
not to mention that burning the grass maintains the health and improves the growth of eucalypts and grass so more carbon is taken up

Well same old, same old story.
What if the scientists made a major blunder and blamed the rise in
temperature to the industrial revolution's release of co2 ?
What if it is just another cycle in that millennium old cycle which
has just reached a peak in temperature, right on time ?

I am not in a position to prove it either way but there are those
that have proved it.
Ever heard of the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm period and
the Maunder minimum. A 600 to 1000 year cycle. It has been staring us
in the face all this time.
Look up these scientists;

Henrik Svenmark, Jyrki Kauppinen and Pekka Malmi Of Tuku Uni in Helsinki.
Prof. Masayuki Hyodo and his team Yusuke Ueno, Tianshui Yang and Shigehiro Katoh from Kobe University.

It is not a popular thesis and if you let anyone know you are reading
these authors you will come under attack. I have been accused by my
mad green daughter in law as being insane, oh well she should talk !

Cool burning of a hectare of grass, puts as much carbon into the atmosphere as 6,000 cars.
Alan B,
Are you saying natural burning is more polluting than industrial burn fumes ?

BAZZ. The moment you make the claim that the sun is the major cause of global temperature change you come up against the ‘orthodoxy’. These people are the true ‘climate deniers’. Don’t be sucked into the rabbit hole trying to elucidate these loopy folk caught in a never ending loop of catastrophic visions. The insanity of blaming CO2 for current weather/climate is inexplicable. However, hang in there mate.

Pete S,

Are you a scientist?

I know Bazz and all the other AGW deniers on The Forum are not scientists, so I assume you are not a scientist as well.