Green ideology, not climate change, makes bushfires worse
By Paul Homewood
Whatever the progressives at the Guardian/BBC may say about wildfires, the blokes actually fighting them understand the reality. This was what they had to say back in March:
March 5, 2019
Melissa Price, the new federal Environment Minister, has done untold political damage to a government already divided over climate action by spouting idiotic green propaganda about Victoria’s bushfires.
On Tuesday, she linked the fires to climate change, claiming there is “no doubt” of its impact on Australia.
“There’s no doubt that there’s many people who have suffered over this summer. We talk about the Victorian bushfires … There’s no doubt that climate change is having an impact on us. There’s no denying that.”
Sorry, minister, it wasn’t climate change that caused the latest bushfires which have so far destroyed nine homes in Victoria, and it wasn’t climate change that killed almost 200 people in the Black Saturday fires ten years ago.
The real culprit is green ideology which opposes the necessary hazard reduction of fuel loads in national parks and which prevents landholders from clearing vegetation around their homes.
Jinks Creek Winery was destroyed after a bushfire engulfed the Bunyip state forest. Picture: Stuart McEvoy / The Australian
The ongoing poor management of national parks and state forests in Victoria and green obstruction of fire mitigation strategies has led to dangerously high fuel loads over the past decade.
That means that when fires do inevitably break out they are so intense that they are devilishly difficult for firefighters to contain. As a federal parliamentary inquiry heard in 2003, if you quadruple the ground fuel, you get a 13-fold increase in the heat generated by a fire.
Locals know the truth. Andrew Clarke, owner of Jinks Creek Winery, which has been destroyed by a fire which raged out of the Bunyip State Forest, “begged” for fuel reduction burns to protect his property.
“I’ve been begging them [Forest Fire Management Victoria] for 20 years to burn off the state forest at the back of our place and still to this day it hasn’t happened,” he told the ABC’s Country Hour.
Clarke said a planned burn-off was called off because of concerns about nesting birds.
So how did that work out for the birds?
Just three weeks ago, Victoria’s former chief fire officer Ewan Waller warned that state forest fuel loads were reaching deadly, Black Saturday levels. No one paid any attention.
But you can bet Premier Daniel Andrews will hide behind the climate change furphy.
Parroting green lies suits politicians because then they can avoid blame for their own culpability.
The Black Saturday Bushfire Royal Commission criticised the Victorian government for its failure to reduce fuel loads in state forests. It recommended more than doubling the amount of hazard reduction burns.
Instead, in the last three years, alone, the Andrews government has slashed the amount of public land being hazard reduced by almost two thirds.
It’s a crime.
https://volunteerfirefighters.org.au/green-ideology-not-climate-change-makes-bushfires-worse
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
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We live in forested areas without a single fire engine capable of reaching a fire while it is small; who would want to Iive in a city without fire engines capable of reaching a burning house in five minutes??
Let’s take it further. If the green lobby hadn’t pressured among others, Kensington & Chelsea into cladding previously fireproof tower blocks, Grenfell Tower would still be standing and 72 people would still be alive.
Apportion blame where it is really due.
Scapegoating climate change is all too easy for authorities to latch onto to cover up their lack of action. And of course the ideologists lap up the drama of it all in pictures and horror stories. It applies to floods and wildfires alike, it’s all grist to their mill. God, that carbon dioxide must be a hell of a powerful gas to cause all that damage on its own.
One of the most iniquitous things about blaming climate change for everything is that it means that nothing is done about the real causes. Invariably these are local causes and well within the compass of local officials to answer. What fool would blame their own ineptitude when they can blame problems on emissions of wealthy faraway people?
It is distressing to read numerous people blaming climate change for the recent bushfires. I filmed the aftermath of such fires in south west Victoria in 1983 for the BBC TV Farming programme. My recollection is that 75 people died, many thousands of stock were killed and hundreds of homes destroyed.
There was a bad drought then as well, but I recall two outstanding features that are worth remembering. 1. The locals were amazingly resilient. They knew what happened was typical and expected. “She’ll be right, mate” was the most common reaction – and no running to the Federal Government for help, either. 2. They all said that the Greens controlled what could be done and what was prohibited. No-one could cut down a tree that you could not grip around with your two hands. No-one could burn the underbrush to keep it in check. No-one could clear trees from around their property, to give it a chance of being kept wet and cool in a fire. One man did that near Sydney – his was the only house to survive, but he had been heavily fined for clearing his “garden”.
So, let’s keep a sense of perspective and stop blaming this chimera “climate change” for every disobliging twist in our weather. In a couple of decades, it will seem as foolish as all those who thought we would run out of minerals by the year 2,000, or Prof Erlich who predicted millions starving in the ’70s, because we could not grow enough food for 4 billion people. Now we have 7.5 billion and starvation is virtually unknown!
Read Matt Ridley in the current Spectator for a more balanced – and optimistic – view of the world!
I think Jo Nova recently commented that farmers are still caught between jail and fire – they can’t just make fire breaks. Anyway, found this, a farmer jailed for doing what used to be done.
Spot on there Jack. Man-made CO2. according to edberry.com, is around 30ppm. So one molecule nasty CO2 to 30,000 other molecules in our atmosphere.
Its extremely powerful!
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The ongoing poor management of national parks and state forests in Victoria and green obstruction of fire mitigation strategies has led to dangerously high fuel loads over the past decade.
That means that when fires do inevitably break out they are so intense that they are devilishly difficult for firefighters to contain. As a federal parliamentary inquiry heard in 2003, if you quadruple the ground fuel, you get a 13-fold increase in the heat generated by a fire.
Every year, fire after fire, flood after flood, climate is blamed but the lessons are never learnt whilst the mindless manta is being chanted. Hopefully this new decade we can evolve from this era of see no truth, hear no truth.
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It’s off-topic, but I think relevant – here’s what anyone who would like to see or take part in a rational debate is up against:
Notice the pitying smirks of the brainwashed, the bias of the BBC , and the belief in ‘99% of scientists’- and the way that any dissenting view expressed by Piers Corbyn is simply ignored.
Owen Jones, Nuff said.
Never leave out these government gangsters.
Feb 9, 2016 Mafia BLM Burns Rancher Property and Cows to Show They Own This Joint
This is what the average TV viewer does not know about why Oregon happened. This is what it looks like when the mafia sends a message.
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“Clarke said a planned burn-off was called off because of concerns about nesting birds”.
What a mad world these so called environmentalists live in. I obviously didn’t occur to Clark that the adult birds would fly away in front of the fire to nest again, and that any young birds in the nests were worth sacrificing for the benefit of the wider population. How do we get rid of these people, or at least get them to understand simple common sense.
climate change IS the new green ideology
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/10/19/emotion/
how it should be –
Very common in the early 20th century
Queensland Fires.
Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette (Qld. : 1868 – 1919) Thursday 24 April 1902
QUEENSLAND. FIRES IN THE SUBURBS. BRISBANE, Tuesday.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954) Wednesday 16 December 1903
QUEENSLAND FIRES.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957) Saturday 17 June 1905
QUEENSLAND. BUSH FIRES.
The North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times (Tas. : 1899 – 1919) Monday 7 September 1908
QUEENSLAND FIRES. BRISBANE, Monday.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954) Tuesday 19 January 1909
QUEENSLAND. THE MOSMAN FIRES.
The North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times (Tas. : 1899 – 1919) Monday 18 July 1910
QUEENSLAND FIRES. PREVENTIVE MEASURES.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957) Saturday 16 September 1911
QUEENSLAND FIRES. SAWMILL DESTROYED. BRISBANE, Thursday.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954) Friday 6 December 1912
Queensland Fires. BRISBANE, Wednesday.
The North Western Courier (Narrabri, NSW : 1913 – 1955) Wednesday 26 February 1913
Queensland Fires.
The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate (NSW : 1910 – 1954) Saturday 10 January 1914
QUEENSLAND FIRES.
The Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1912 – 1923) Saturday 30 October 1915
QUEENSLAND CANE FIRES
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957) Thursday 27 September 1917
Queensland Fires.
The Armidale Chronicle (NSW : 1894 – 1929) Wednesday 30 October 1918
QUEENSLAND. FIRES AND L.W.W. GANGS.
Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Tas. : 1890 – 1922) Wednesday 29 October 1919
QUEENSLAND FIRES CASE OF SUPPOSED ARSON
The Evening Star (Boulder, WA : 1898 – 1921) Monday 16 August 1920
QUEENSLAND FIRES Soldiers’ Loss
The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 – 1954) Monday 15 October 1923
Queensland Fires BRISBANE, Wednesday.
Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 – 1931) Wednesday 16 January 1924
QUEENSLAND BUSH FIRES
Singleton Argus (NSW : 1880 – 1954) Thursday 24 December 1925 p 4 Article
Queensland Fires.
Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 – 1954) Saturday 20 November 1926
QUEENSLAND FIRES [?] CROP SUFFERS.
Singleton Argus (NSW : 1880 – 1954) Thursday 22 September 1927
QUEENSLAND FIRES.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957) Monday 12 November 1928
QUEENSLAND FIRES BRISBANE, Wedenesday
The Daily Express (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1919 – 1930) Friday 2 August 1929
BUSH FIRES In Queensland
The West Wyalong Advocate (NSW : 1928 – 1954) Friday 3 January 1930
QUEENSLAND FIRES. BRISBANE, Tuesday.
Cloncurry Advocate (Qld. : 1931 – 1953) Saturday 20 February 1932
Queensland. GRASS FIRES.
The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946) Saturday 1 April 1933
QUEENSLAND BUSH FIRES
The Independent (Deniliquin, NSW : 1901 – 1946) Friday 12 October 1934
Grass Fires In Queensland
The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 – 1954) Wednesday 6 September 1939
QUEENSLAND FIRES STILL RAGING BRISBANE, Monday.
Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1911 – 1954) Tuesday 12 November 1940
QUEENSLAND FIRES Stock Burnt to Death
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 – 1954) Tuesday 9 September 1941
SERIOUS QUEENSLAND FIRES: PROPERTY DAMAGED HOMES MANACED
Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 – 1954) Thursday 3 October 1946
Bush Fires in Queensland
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 – 1954) Monday 27 September 1948
QUEENSLAND FIRES UNDER CONTROL HEAVY DAMAGE CAUSED
National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 – 1954) Thursday 5 January 1950
QUEENSLAND BESH FIRES
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (NSW : 1856 – 1861; 1863 – 1889; 1891 – 1954) Wednesday 23 September 1936
Queensland Fires. BRISBANE, January 15.
Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 – 1954) Monday 16 January 1939
QUEENSLAND FIRES
National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 – 1954) Saturday 11 August 1951
Queensland Fires
Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 – 1954) Thursday 11 December 1952
Heavy damage in Queensland fires
Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 – 1954) Monday 11 January 1954
In 2004 Professor John Kay described the idea of Obliquity where an oblique approach to a problem was oftentimes the best. The zero tolerance policy of the US National Parks Service to any fire, however small, since the 19th century did not decrease but increased the incidence of fires. The oblique approach had been to let the “kindling” burn which removed fuel for a much bigger and devastating fire.
A full description of this is here
https://www.johnkay.com/2004/01/17/obliquity/
There are several issues here; and they are all tangled-up. You’ve got overgrowth of vegetation, greenhouse gas, the fire department, and government spending. So let’s cut out everything except “global warming” which is supposedly caused by too much emission of carbon dioxide gas. Certain countries, such as China, are responsible for most of these omissions. So why isn’t China specifically named as the culprit? Because every government is dreaming of the day when State employees can never get fired. Communist ideology offers total protection to State Agents. And since China is the biggest and most powerful communist country, none of the government employees in England or Australia want to say anything bad about them. Communists must never be openly criticized.
““I’ve been begging them [Forest Fire Management Victoria] for 20 years to burn off the state forest at the back of our place and still to this day it hasn’t happened,” he told the ABC’s Country Hour.
Clarke said a planned burn-off was called off because of concerns about nesting birds.
So how did that work out for the birds?”
I guess the chickens have come home to roast? /pun intended
Today I listened to a the Economist podcast about the Californian Eucalyptus problem. One thing that could be discerned was that the original Californian flora and fauna did not support a lot of woodlands. It was always too dry for that. That’s why most Indian tribes stayed away from California for so long. It was not fertile land and the reason why so much of California is green today is irrigation. So, the woods and the brush have been created by us. Now, we need to manage what we have created. But Greens have declared this human creation to be nature now which cannot be touched. But nature does not give a damn and dries the landscape, making it liable to fire. And with all the brush and trees we have given the fires plenty of nourishment. Just my two cents.