Hi BELLY,
"Are these bushfires climate change?" is a category mistake. It's almost like asking "What sound is the colour blue?" Climate measures temperatures over decades, preferably in 30 year chunks for comparison sake. All the *climate* models can say with (increasingly sophisticated) degrees of confidence is roughly how many drought periods we'll have per decadal chunk. It shows how weather systems might move and in what statistical average. Climate is the dice being loaded a certain way and can talk about probabilities over time. Weather tries to model exactly how the dice will land on a given throw and that's way hard, almost as hard as ... trying to predict the weather! ;-) But one thing is for sure. If we keep burning fossil fuels the way we are, those dice ARE going to be loaded and we ARE going to get more and more years like this — over time. Do we want that?

What do you do when there is a climate emergency? The bumbling fool running the country goes on holidays to Hawaii to escape it all. You got to give it to this happy clapper of a prime minister, he doesn't care about Australia, or Australians.

Wee Prime Minist would love that Max
Let us see drought may be the longest hottest ever and not over yet
Drys the grass forests, even water storagfe dams are near empty
Did climate chance assist the drought? is the drought of our new climate.
Did the fires burn more fiercely because of the drought?
What does blue sound like?
Well the one tha6t will break out in this Federal government, next year, as farmers demand action on climate change? blue murder bank on it.
Scomo is piddling himself AGAIN, see he knows a far, *the war, the one behind coalitions ten years of infighting* is back.
Maybe even having a Macas moment!
Yes a SYMPTOM OF MAN-MADE CLIME CHANGE IS THE EXTREME NATURE OF THIS DROUGHT, TOO FIRE BUBUGS, SOME WITH DRIP TORCHES IN THEIR HANDS.
Warmer dryer winters, made controlled burns dangerous, burned down homes this last winter.
Drip torch firebugs? our biggest super fire near half a million hectares was less than half that size when deliberately started back burns got away!
many of the home lost are victims of that act of stupidity

The problem is Belly, when the rains come back, possibly FLOODS in a La Nina year (oh please!), they'll say "What climate change? See, it's all a cycle." Now I agree that the stats seem to say this is the earliest and driest and longest drought on record. That's if someone bothers to read the reports from sciencey places like BOM. But if someone like (take Josephus for example) gets their opinion from looking out the window, the moment it rains again they're going to say, "What climate change?"

It won't be until Sydney has desert sands blowing across it that the Josephus sort finally acknowledge we're in climate change, but that's what we are trying to PREVENT!

I'm just pointing out that while you and I can admit the trend, there will be rain again. Probably half way through January, maybe February. Then you'll see Josephus and his clan pop up with "SEE! It's raining again! What climate change?" I was trying to provide an answer to that by highlighting the difference between weather and climate.

Max in total agreement.
Have been all thread long, truth and the devil makes me be a bit naughty in replying to the usual suspects.
They ARE victims of fake news, the invention of Adolf's man, hijacked by Murdock used by him the play real-life monopoly with the whole planet.
And its people.
Nothing amuses me more than seeing the very victims of that man, fighting on his side having been totally bluffed and confused by the deliberate lie the term fake news is
Raining here, first last night [that being the first in a long while] mist but wet.
2MM in my weather station, but the mist still falling, think by morning it may get to 4mm in total
A day will come when the fall in that time, 36 hours will be 4 inches even more, but here at least on that day the gutters will run black with soot and ash, trees will fall as roots washout, we will get rain, when is the question
My Christmas best wishes bloke

Merry Christmas Belly!