Climate Change does not cause bushfires | Dr. Bjorn Lomborg
December 22, 2022
By Paul Homewood
Bjorn Lomborg in conversation with the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, John Anderson:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Re: bushfires – ‘Great T.V. but not great to inform ‘.
Authorities present response – the ‘ costliest but least effective’.
Remind me – why does anyone tolerate governments wasting the people’s resources ?
Apparently, it’s called democracy.
A massively government-misinformed, propagandized electorate does not lead to a democracy.
Nor does it if the only parties likely to win all have policies that are almost identical with the only difference being the level of damage done to our economy and standard of living, and whether women have penises or not.
Perhaps I should have reinforced the ironic nature of my comment by putting “Apparently” in bold!
Lomborg’s analysis is excellent (apart from the acceptance of climate harms of course). I wonder if he really believes that or if he feels he has say it to avoid being dismissed outright. In many cases he is dismissed even so of course.
I made a similar comment a couple of days ago re Pielke on 2022 disasters:
‘And then he ruins all his good work (to my mind) with “Reducing greenhouse gases is crucially important, of course.”’
Where is the evidence that ‘greenhouses gases’ (by which everybody means CO2) are players, let alone major players, in determining changes in the climate? Are we still relying on the irrelevant experiments of Arrhenius from 120 years ago.
Shellenberger (and others) have seen the light. What’s keeping Pielke and Lomborg?
Pielke and Lomborg go along with CO2 as the only factor that causes sighificant adverse man-made climate change.
That allows them to keep publishing where alarmism is most important, where there is the most funding to write stuff.
This has always been his schtick right back to his Sceptical Environmentalist days. He is of course not any sort of atmospheric scientist. I didn’t catch any reference to the role of fire in regenerating eucalyptus forests. As I understand it, heat is is needed to break open the seed pods and the tree has evolved a neat way to achieve this by emitting oil of eucalyptus, a highly volatile and flammable material. Fire is spread at canopy top level limiting ground damage.
I think he belongs to those who can see flaws and faults, and even lies, regarding global warming within their own sphere but sincerely believe and trust those in other spheres. This came through for Lomborg and others in The Deniers.
Elementary school textbooks:
To have fire, you need fuel, heat, oxygen, and climate change.
The one flaw in Bjorn Lomborg’s Australian fire chart concerns the 1974- 75 bushfire season at the height of the 1970’s global cooling hysteria when an estimated 15% of the continent burned following the drenching rains of 1974 [ still the peak year in the BoM national rainfall series ].. The 2019 – 20 ‘Black Summer ‘ bushfires burned significantly less land than the 74 fires so the climate change thesis does not stack up ..The temperate forest understory ecosystems and the normally arid further inland regions of Australia were so flushed with scrub and grass after the 74 La Nina rains that the country turned into a tinderbox when the summer heat dried out the bush . This is the pattern of ENSO / La Nina environmental conditions that has existed for centuries …
Tens of millions of acres of boreal forest in Canada, Alaska, and Russia burn every year. The difference is, there aren’t many people around to cry about it.
To enable exploitation you need an unhealthy mix of immoral multinational corporations, media and political elites; thus allowing fantastically costly policies.
Keep the public vulnerable as they are a valuable commodity.
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