NNS thanks, still trying to get my car back
Well this much is true it is hot and dry, and winter burns got away so did not take place
Cost cutting had a role, parks truly professional fire fighters no longer exist
One HORRIBLE truth exists, firebugs, some from the very group we owe so much to, volunteer firefighters have been started on purpose
SOME landowners have started fires mid this crisis, to? they say protect their property!
One truth
By summer's end right or wrong those who demand climate change action will see huge increases in their numbers bank on it
Firefighting fire bugs? yes it is an illness and much like phedophils joining Scout groups they join firefighters

Dear Belly,

The basic fact is that the world is just getting gradually hotter.

Scientists who have been measuring and modelling the Earth especially since the 1960s are telling us that the cause is the burning of fossil fuels.

Research by scholars especially environmental historians, environmental archaeologists and environmental sociologists supports what the science is saying.

The problem is too big to stop the planet from continuing to heat up.

People must learn how to deal with the problems and prepare for future worst case scenarios.

Expect the worst that Mother Nature will throw at us.

Much this climate 'emergency' hysteria is probably due to increasing depression and mental illness in society. Many people have become so run down with lies and Left propaganda that they can no longer sort fact from fiction, or think clearly for themselves.

Mr O, Is burning trees equivalent to fossil fuels? How much carbon and air pollution is released from 1,000,000 hectares of burnt forest?

The Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 killed 173 people, 120 in the Kinglake area alone. Another 414 people were injured. More than 450,000 hectares had burned and 3,500 buildings including more than 2000 houses destroyed. The RSPCA estimated that up to one million wild and domesticated animals died in the disaster.
http://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/black-saturday-bushfires

1851: 6 February, Black Thursday
Fires covered a quarter of what is now Victoria (about five million hectares). Areas affected included Portland, Plenty Ranges, Westernport, the Wimmera and Dandenong districts.
Around 12 lives, one million sheep and thousands of cattle were lost.

Fire has been present on the Australian continent for millions of years and has been significant in shaping much of the landscape. Many fires were started by lightning.
Aboriginal people used fire for many thousands of years to 'care for country'. The fires were a tool that encouraged the growth and extent of grasslands to enhance hunting, reduced levels of fuel, and kept vegetation from becoming dense and hard to walk through.

Dear ttbn and Josephus (plus others),

Actually I'm beginning to enjoy your one dollar brain comments. It's good to see how the ignorant and uneducated think.

I can see Mr O working hard on his post graduate studies. He will go far in this world, especially with China.