Hi Belly,

Are you suggesting that, in addition to the fires that got started by faulty power lines and lightning strikes, that some were deliberately lit ? I wonder what proportion that leaves to 'climate change' ?

Many years ago, R. L. Heathcote wrote extensively about droughts in Australia, for example:

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1978&context=greatplainsquarterly

It seems that bush-fires are a combination of a year or more of good rains taken up by the vegetation, followed by drought or at least a lengthy dry period drying it out. Perhaps any such situation, especially in national parks, is aggravated by the neglect of cool burns, burning off in the cooler seasons. So a big thank you to the bureaucrats responsible.

Joe

Dear Loudmouth2,

You ask; "are you suggesting that, in addition to the fires that got started by faulty power lines and lightning strikes, that some were deliberately lit ? I wonder what proportion that leaves to 'climate change' ?"

You should be smart enough to answer this yourself.

Arsonists, especially of the younger variety, are generally opportunistic. The more days of high fire danger we are experiencing the more likely the number of deliberately lit fires will increase.

Hi Steele,

So CO2 is causing more arsonists ?

Joe

Dear Loudmouth2,

Why are you asking? No one has contended that so why raise it?

Doubling the opportunity for arson activity from a doubling of the number of fire ready days will inevitably lead to more human lit firs for services to cope with.

Why is this notion presenting difficulties for you?

LOUDMOUTH ONE OR TWO, Fact is in two prio threads on this subject, and the current climate emergency one, my view is clear
Fire bugs exist, often it is a mental health issue
Some, more than most care to know, are serving firefighters
Being called heros but starting fires is often seen
Fire bugs murder, not forgetting millions times ten the dead insects
And thousands of dead animals
No joy in saying it again but in every brigade I served in [5] we had at least one firebug
My last? a man on his way to a paid position[ area manager] said these words to me, I am bored lets start a fire] we had been on patrol of a forest me hoping we found no fire
I broke my service over those words but after he moved both up and out of my area returned to rebuild that brigade
Some, once , not as much now, joined brigades because they liked firers true
We must one day [hope it is with this years offenders, see prison terms of at least five years first offence for them

The peanut gallery had not stopped applauding their home town champ, Joe's seemly knock out blow of ridicule to Steele, "So CO2 is causing more arsonists" ha ha got ya there Steele. When Steele counter punches with a good old 1,2,3; "Doubling the opportunity for arson activity from a doubling of the number of fire ready days will inevitably lead to more human lit firs for services to cope with".

Its the coup de gras, Joe been decked, he's out for the count!