Thread: Climate Change and our Land of Fire, Flood and Drought.

Try adding "Wild Fire" into the jargon mix as well. "Buzz words by Shiny Arses" is how I view them.

Popular in SA a few year ago but eventually they saw the error of their stupid ways. Does anyone ever stop to think all this **** is making the populace feel really unnecessarily threatened? Kids can't be feeling all that great listening to this crap.

What's wrong with "A fire is approaching, so get the buggery out out of the way to somewhere safe because it can hurt you"

"Catastrophic" seems to be popular this week have you noticed?


Now I await to be told the million & one reasons why it is so.


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Originally Posted by Johndoe

Buzz words of the week are MEGA FIRE, CATASTROPHE and CLIMATE CHANGE.
Every news channel is spewing out the same thing with the challenge being who can use all 3 in one sentence.

I saw Fire Fury Friday somewhere.

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72 homes gone in SA today...

bet there are a few there that could put all three together...

poor bastards

Originally Posted by incisor

72 homes gone in SA today...

bet there are a few there that could put all three together...

poor bastards

Yep, it is hard to imagine how a fire sweeps though a green vineyard as one would think there is nothing to support a fire. One would think it would literally run out of steam after a few metres from the perimeters.

In the '83 fire up here large irrigated vegetable gardens were apparently bursting into flames including Lettuces with a high water content.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

It's still only mid December and already we've had a month of fire crisis.
Normally it would rain in the Christmas school holidays and then the fires would come in February. None of that has happened.
People need to stop being complacent and wake up. There is nothing normal about this situation.

When, exactly, was this supposed 'era'?
Is it part of your memory subset, or a figment of someone elses imagination?

Black Friday, Vic, Dec '38 - Jan'39
Woodford, NSW, Nov '44
Grose Valley, NSW, Nov '51
Blue Mts, NSW, Nov '68

'06-'07 bushfires(basically all over the country) started in Sep '06, finally extinguished Jan '07

To see or hear of bushfires earlier than 'December' during a drought period! ... is typical. Theoretically to be expected.
If it's a drought year, then by definition, there'd be more fuel to burn than in non drought years. Moron firebugs, lightning strikes, etc = bushfires at any time in this drought period.
Why is this current situation any different to the past 150 years that such circumstances have been recorded in this country?

In one specific sense tho, your claim does have some merit too.
But the specific are that, the bushfires that have all been 'typical' in that they come in or about Feb of a year, will be some of the worst in terms of ferocity and scale.
The majority of these 'worst bushfires in recorded history' in Aus, have been typical bushfires of the Jan-Feb type.
So it seems that later the bushfires seasons starts, the more likely it is to be bad.

But for the sake of some balance in this debate: in modern times(ie. this year and the '06-07 fire season) those two specific seasons are listed as starting earlier than any other bushfire season.
This current 2019 fire is fast becoming one of the worst in Aus history, and had Vic been affected as well, may easily have been up there.
Where you've become confused with your statement is that the 'typical' bushfire season is between Dec-Feb in Aus. ie. Summer!
That Aus will see a bushfire in Dec, or earlier is nothing new.
Dec- Feb is the 'average' period that this country will see bushfires.
The ignorant few will twist 'average' claim to express some misguided misinformation that any period of bushfire not within those bounds is abnormal.
The reality is that it's how the average will be measured.

Once again, the populace is being failed by sensationalist seeking individuals, for whatever specific reasons they respectively have.
eg.
Media: ads($'s)
(pseudo)Environmentalists: scare mongering BS!

Bushfire season in QLD runs from late July to February, with some variation across the state. Our place becomes dodgy around late August, early September.

In 2011, the fire on the property next door was early November. Was as dry as a dead dingo's, was started by a slasher blade hitting something hard and about three weeks before the floods came.