Steele,

"In 2007, a study by the CSIRO (the national government body for scientific research in Australia), found evidence that climate change will lead to increases in very high and extreme fire danger rating days and earlier onset of the fire season..."

Note: '...earlier onset of the fire season...".

Toni,

In case you didn't notice my advocacy of arming teachers and other responsible people at schools is aimed at saving lives;

see:http://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/us/shooting-school-maryland.html

Meanwhile, there are allegations of Greens councillors ringing Tathra with fire hazards, thus allowing Di Nastoly to mount an unburnt stump for another of his thrilling speeches.

Dear Is Mise,

Lord save us from those less blessed with common sense. Come on mate, engage the brain for once. Extended warmer weather through summer will impact both ends of the season so yes it will indeed mean an earlier onset but equally a delayed tapering into Autumn.

From the quoted study;

“Taken together, the model results suggest that fire seasons will start earlier and end slightly later, while being generally more intense throughout their length.”
http://www.cmar.csiro.au/e-print/open/2007/hennesseykj_c.pdf

Remember though this prediction was over a decade ago. It has since been confirmed as happening;

“The annual 90th percentile of daily FFDI points has increased since 1974 across Australia, especially in southern and eastern Australia, and the fire season has lengthened.”
http://www.csiro.au/~/media/OnA/Files/StateOfTheClimate2016_24ppReport_WEB.pdf

Isn't it surprising that since the ratbag greens have managed to reduce & even prevent preventative burning of bush, with their constant propaganda that bush fires have become more deadly & harder to manage.

A ratbag green council even fined a bloke for clearing bush back to a safe distance from his home. They did not even have the decency to apologise when his home was one of very few to survive the last lot.

Fortunately the public appear to be wising up to these fools, their tactics, & crazy ideology, hence recent election results. Like the Democrats before them, they will fold up & disappear some time soon, but will cause more destruction & heart ache to the innocent before then unfortunately.

Steele,

As Hasbeen said above there are other factors, such as the Greens and their stupid resistance to hazard reduction which was amply demonstrated in the very bad Victorian fires.

A lot of the South Coast of NSW is at risk because of Green stupidity and NSW Government stupidity in not overriding dangerous council decisions.

I suppose it was just an oversight on your part that you didn't mention both ends of the spectrum, not knowledge gained when you looked a little deeper?

//In case you didn't notice my advocacy of arming teachers and other responsible people at schools is aimed at saving lives//

No, it's aimed at providing a smokescreen to obfuscate the absence of action on gun control, and to provide a convenient talking point to steer the conversation towards whenever anybody raises the subject of gun control. I was not born yesterday, Is Mise.

If you're so concerned about saving lives, why is it that you're never, ever willing to discuss gun control even though we have plenty of empirical data demonstrating it's effectiveness, instead dismissing it out of hand and plowing ahead with your insistence that what's needed to solve this gun problem is more guns? That's not the behaviour of somebody whose chief concern is the preservation of life, and damn the cost in guns. It's the behaviour of somebody whose chief concern is preservation of the right to bear arms, and damn the cost in human life.