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Fuel load, lazy councils, tree management, drought all played a factor. Blaming it on that idiot scomo is blame misplaced. It also ignores the reality.
Australia states and local gov got lazy. Fire breaks were needed well before.
Absolutely terrible performance. This will right him off for the rest of his term- if he lasts that long. The trip to Hawaii was his downfall in the opinion polls.Must be the most inept performance ever seen by an Australian PM
Fuel load, lazy councils, tree management, drought all played a factor. Blaming it on that idiot scomo is blame misplaced. It also ignores the reality.
Australia states and local gov got lazy. Fire breaks were needed well before.
You do know he has been coordinating with state govt all week. As recently as navy ships to Andrews. Photo ops he is bombing in. But let's face it: It's leftist out in force powerwhinging at the neocon. Scomo will simply wait for the rain to save his ar5e.A firey captain was asked on ABC this morning to compare the previous Victorian fires (he fought them as well) with the current as far as conditions etc went he calmly said they were at least double how are you going to deal with that?
Its not a blame game its a new paradigm
He also said his own family have been evacuated and that his place although in the firing line wont be defended in the coming days what can we say when this is the service we get from these people.
Compare that to our PM Smoko.
Note, Vic Premier Andrews praised Smoko for his help in coordination for the Victorian fire evacuations (thats leadership) Smoko has failed the test where this is the time for standing shoulder to shoulder not looking for photo opts for political standing.
Shame really it does Australia no good
Put all these issues such as fire management, water supply, energy and so on in the hands of real experts across the relevant fields and leave them to it. Keep all politicians from One Nation through to the Greens and everyone in between right out of it.
To that end, if it were up to me then I'd assemble some sort of Commission staffed by an assortment of people across the range of scientific fields from biology and botany through to civil and power engineering and everything in between and with some sort of chief scientific group as its board of directors.
Fuel load, lazy councils, tree management, drought all played a factor. Blaming it on that idiot scomo is blame misplaced. It also ignores the reality.
Australia states and local gov got lazy. Fire breaks were needed well before.
We need management solutions. The current screeching about climate change from the press is a distraction from the realities of what needs to be done. We can reduce emissions to zero tomorrow and Australia will still burn if it isn't managed properly. People in cities have this false sense of safety because we reduce our carbon emissions by 5%. Ignoring that management solutions and adaptation are still needed.
Food/water will be the next big crisis that needed to be sorted years back. Heat issues will be another one. This all needs to be addressed now.
And the CC stuff is very relevant this is what it looks like.
Lol.... I doubt he voted libs, but this just in from the guardian :Some very angry, articulate, Liberal voters disgusted with the current governments stand of fires and CC
Bushfires
I've always voted Liberal, but after sheltering my family on a beach I cannot support this government
While I spent the night with hot embers raining down on us at Malua Bay, I decided to write to Scott Morrison
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...y-on-a-beach-i-cannot-support-this-government
There have been long droughts in this country that lasted decades. Things can get a lot worse.
It's relevant in it's effect on Australia. Not so much the bleating that reduce emissions in Australia will help in any form for the current situation. It's not going to stop jack the world will continue to pollute. It's a cheap talking point. And funding is at record highs.
Lol.... I doubt he voted libs, but this just in from the guardian :
SCOMO BURNT MY HOUSE DOWN.
A firey captain was asked on ABC this morning to compare the previous Victorian fires (he fought them as well) with the current as far as conditions etc went he calmly said they were at least double how are you going to deal with that?
Indeed there have been. But these droughts have happened in the context of an overall climate that was significantly cooler than our current experience and which will get progressively much warmer on our current trajectory.
Add drought to that base climate and many places in Australia will be uninhabitable.
https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Oa...mate/State-of-the-Climate-2018/Future-climate
Really ? Your quite happy to quote and believe one person who was savage on Scomo (He burn't my house down.) but don't accept another person's story that is also critical of Government CC policy but prefaces it with saying he is angry about the lack of effective policies dealing CC.
Blaming fires solely on climate change is simpleton rubbish. And all the simpletons are out in force.
Agreed but we need to respond to this rather than sitting around pointing the blame.Each and every statement made by these bodies on the issue makes it clear that the role of climate change and a warming climate is to simply steeply escalate the ferocity and dangers of bushfires.
CC doesn't start fires; it just adds a the sort of kick we are now seeing in play around the world.
There are many areas where burns could and should have been done but weren't.I cant debate it, but seemingly some would like to talk about fuel loads, NOT why controlled burns did not occur ... because ... it was NOT safe ...
There are many areas where burns could and should have been done but weren't.
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