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Old 01-07-2020, 08:47 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Originally Posted by Corrie22 View Post
you're arguing semantics....183 people have been charged..some for starting several fires..so say 200 fires

200 fires is almost all of the fires burning now....even if some of the fires started from embers from another fire

I will guarantee you....if those 183 people had not caused those fires...no one would even be talking about it now...global warming or no global warming
Quit with the facts. The fake news alarmists won't be deterred.

 
Old 01-07-2020, 08:51 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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It's not good.... As fires continue to rip through Australia, some devastating numbers are emerging: At least 24 people killed. More than 15.6 million acres torched. Over 1,400 homes destroyed. And, according to one biodiversity expert's count, an estimated 1 billion animals killed.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2...-dead-estimate
Sounds like a wonderful place to live.... No wonder Britain made it a penal colony!
 
Old 01-07-2020, 08:52 PM
 
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What does “spread like they have never spread before” mean? Every fire I’ve ever seen spreads if there’s fuel. The more fuel there is, the more the fire spreads. It’s not rocket science and certainly not global warming.
In mid-December before the fires started the entire country had a record heat wave.

Record heat waves dry out the vegetation and make it burn a lot easier than before.

It's not rocket science. It's climate science.

Scientific American agrees.
 
Old 01-07-2020, 08:57 PM
 
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Absolutely not. It's very, very simple:

Arsonists stared the fires. Climate change made them spread like they have never spread before.

Climate change is killing people, destroying homes and businesses, and wildlife worldwide. That's an indisputable scientific fact.
Just when I thought you couldn't sink any lower into the intellectual cesspool.......Jesus.....
 
Old 01-07-2020, 09:12 PM
 
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Were there hurricanes before climate change made them worse? Yes.
Were there wildfires before climate change made them worse? Yes.
Were there floods before climate change made them worse? Yes.


Rinse and repeat....
So far, the fires of 1851 were worse.
 
Old 01-07-2020, 09:15 PM
 
Location: Here
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You climate change folks are seriously delusional. If ANYTHING even remotely abnormal happens, it's gotta be due to that evil man-made climate change.
 
Old 01-07-2020, 09:18 PM
 
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So far, the fires of 1851 were worse.
Maybe it’s just been a gradual global warming since the 1800’s???

 
Old 01-07-2020, 09:31 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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How much global warming was there in 1851 when such fires burned over 5 million hectares?

Let's look at part of the famous Australian poem "My Country" written in 1904:

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.

Sounds like climate change in 1904. Lol
What do you think the population, and fire fighting equipment was available in 1851...How many fire fighters, helicopters and water bombers were there?

As of today 14,000,000 acres have burned, and there is still at least two months of fire season to go.

By the way 5,000,000 hectares = 12,355,269 acres, so by the time this fire season is over I'll bet the area burned more than doubles the 1851 figure.
 
Old 01-07-2020, 09:46 PM
 
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What do you think the population, and fire fighting equipment was available in 1851...How many fire fighters, helicopters and water bombers were there?

As of today 14,000,000 acres have burned, and there is still at least two months of fire season to go.

By the way 5,000,000 hectares = 12,355,269 acres, so by the time this fire season is over I'll bet the area burned more than doubles the 1851 figure.
Did I forget to mention those 5 million hectares were in just the state of Victoria, but for all of Australia, it was approximately 50 million hectares?

https://www.loveexploring.com/galler...tive-bushfires

I'm so sorry about that. Lol. It's almost like I did it on purpose.
 
Old 01-07-2020, 09:47 PM
 
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The global warmers will burn down the planet to save it from burning down possibly in the future. Like insurance fraud on a global scale.
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