Experts Say Aussie Bush Fires Have Nothing to Do With Climate Change

As tragic as the Australian wildfires are, it is even more of a tragedy when such devastating losses are played for political gain. Since the fires began, left-wing environmentalists and their ilk, have been shouting that global warming is to blame. However, top scientists beg to differ!

According to scientist and bushfire expert, David Packham, Australia’s current bushfires have nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with “fuel-loads.” Five years ago, Packham, a former bushfire researcher at CSIRO, warned that unless there is a drastic increase in annual fuel reduction burnings “a massive bushfire disaster will occur”. Packham’s research accurately predicted that, “The forest and alpine environment will decay and be damaged possibly beyond repair and home and people [will be] incinerated.”

Fuel levels –which means the volume of trees and greenery available to “fuel” wildfires — are at their highest since European settlement, and that’s something Packham attributed to “misguided green ideology”, vested interests, political failure and “forrest mismanagement.”

In a November interview with Andrew Bolt on Australia’s Sky News, Packham said there are four groups that profit from our current situation, which may give “clues” as to why necessary fuel reduction burns have been neglected. First, “The Greens” [environmental activists], who are using [the fires] to further their Global Warming narrative; second, the fire agencies, who can ask for increased funding; third, the politicians who can exploit the victims for a photo-op; and fourth, the media who love to report on the tragedy.

More recently, Packham told reporter, Jane Marwick, that he was “shocked” to hear that former state fire chiefs were attributing the current bushfires to “climate change” instead of record fuel-loads.

“I was terribly surprised when they put out this line that the fires are due to climate change when everybody who knows anything about the principles and a little bit of the science of bushfire behavior knows that is not the case. It is… the fuel,” he told Marwick.

“I was shocked, because these are very experienced people. They’re right at the top of the tree and to hear what came from them… has left me absolutely startled that people who– if that is what they really believe, you can’t imagine why they are in the position they are in. And I can’t believe that they’re saying things they didn’t believe just to push a sort of semi-religious myth about climate change.”

According to Packham, the science is undeniable. The ferocity of the fire is determined by the amount of fuel and the amount of fuel determines the rate at which the fire moves. Since fuel levels have climbed to their most dangerous level in thousands of years, a blaze of this magnitude was unavoidable and should have been expected, anticipated, and planned for.

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13 Thoughts to “Experts Say Aussie Bush Fires Have Nothing to Do With Climate Change”

  1. Paul

    Believe it or not there is science out there that will aid in preventing this type of fire.
    But as long as there is this culture out there knows no limits on exploitation then this problem will continue.

  2. WilliamB

    Just as in California, the ignorant Greenies (including the worst of them all, the governor) ignored science and went with feelings…protecting nature by leaving it alone. Same philosophy and same result, and both are using their mistakes to perpetuate the myth of climate change. Who’d have guessed that the end of the world would be brought about by stupid people trying to avoid the end of the world?

  3. There was some reportage that arsonists were a big factor. (???)

  4. eugene

    I think it is disgraceful how political people take this action to benefit on peoples
    misfortune

  5. Lorey

    Maybe they should increase tourism or out door camplng. Where they’ll use the brush – wood 4 fires at nite. All throughout Australia 2 reduce the amount of fuel. Don’t they have weekend holidays like us 3 to 4 times a year

  6. LuAnn Premock

    I can’t believe that we lost all those animals, homes and people to the negligence of a government position that was put in place to prevent this sort of disaster. I would think they should find a well qualified person to oversee this should there be anything left.
    THIS IS SO SAD. ALL THOSE INNOCENT CREATURES GONE BECAUSE OF “SOMEONE’S”
    NEGLIGENCE!!!

  7. Every year, it’s “the end is only 10 years away — PANIC NOW” I’ve been hearing this since the 1970’s. I just wish these ‘frightened’ people would, at least, review some of the negative information which has been made available to the public. “Pay for study” scientists (?) and the MSM are lousy places to go for RATIONAL/TRUE information. We can and should do our best to insure CLEAN air and water. There is NOTHING we can do to influence the SUN and our dependence in IT for our weather.

  8. Laura Wagner

    Thank you for debunking the current BS narrative. The same type of thing from the so-called environmentalists is used to hide their own culpability in the California wildfires. When is responsible land and resource management going to get started?

  9. Only Mother Nature causes climate change, warmer one place, cooler another. Wetter one place, dryer another. There is only a certain amount of energy on Earth, it just gets rearranged, not created or destroyed.

  10. It sounds a lot like the authorities in Australia are of the same ilk as our California knuckleheads. They ignore the buildup of fuel for fires, in deference to the environmentalists, and do absolutely nothing to manage that tinderbox until the fires come. Only an idiot would do such a thing and then when fires are started, intentionally or accidentally, to blame it on man made global warming. Yet, that is incredibly the way it is done in both Australia and California. Incompetent boobs like these authorities should never be allowed within a thousand miles of the levers of power, but then, as the saying goes, “you get the government you deserve, because you elect them”.

  11. the aborigines have told the govt how and when to backburn but they have been ignored by this crap government who don`t know anything

  12. will

    don’t forget to add that radical muhammadan teens were caught setting some of those fires.

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