Australia on fire: Bushfires spreading rapidly

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Yep it's bad

The Deputy PM said that now is not the time to discuss global warming's connection to the bushfires and that only "inner city lunatics" care about climate change.

That only shows how much his moronic evangelical ass is out-of-touch R3. No help coming from them obviously. I personally don't know any ordinary citizen who denies the accelerating effect of climate change on this land. My opinion is that Australia is one of the climate frontlines, while much of North America is way back in a safety zone.

Just as our Fire Season is winding down, Australia's is ramping up!

Anyone in Oz wanna buy my N95 masks and air filter machines?

[quote] Australia on fire: Bushfires spreading rapidly

Situation normal in a largely desert continent.

It’s horribly smoggy here, and it’s playing havoc with my asthma.

Hey, Austrialia!

How do you get electric power to high-risk areas?

Because here in California, so many wildfires have been started by power lines coming down in high winds, that on high-risk days the power company just turns power off to millions. Have you lot found a way around that problem?

[quote] How do you get electric power to high-risk areas?

Underground or old school telegraph poles.

Most fires are caused by humans by accident, which is very easy during a drought.

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Just read revised figure of 600 school closures..

Must be a lot of Deplorables in Oz as well to have the PM and Deputy PM they do.

Australia is on fire because that’s how eucalyptus trees evolved to reproduce. They are filled with highly flammable eucalyptus oil that encourages immolation so they can explode and spread their seeds.

Look on the bright side, annual massive conflagrations will become a major and desperately needed source of employment.

What a nightmare. Those poor people!

I wish all that smoke would cover the White House.

Hummmm, are their a lot of trees around the White House? Do we have any agent orange left?

Well genius, if the Australian fires generate so much smoke they can cover the White House the world won't have much to eat next year.

The level of danger is becoming too much as no news networks have carried it. Unfathomable 100K homes threatened, and here we are totally unconcerned or uninvolved

I love outside of Sydney, the smoke arrived today, ugh.

I am concerned with the local newspapers being behind a pay wall after 4 articles updates about the fires won’t disseminate.

That's really fucked, R21. The cheapskate Sacramento Bee (from N. California) even suspended all fire coverage for their $13 monthly fee for fire related articles. I guess they're wagering families will be back and paying up once the danger has passed. Um....

Up to 350 koala's die in bushfires.

Why doesn't SLOMO(Prime Minister Scott Morrison)'s god stop the fires?

Barnaby Joyce, infamous feuder with Amber Heard and married Conservative Catholic who has Two love children with a staffer says bushfire victims are Greens voters.

I want to know how Barnaby got his children christened in the Catholic church when they're bastard children and the fruit of adultery? Money and influence clearly speaks louder than the word of god. Wouldn't happen if it were the common man on the street.

Most of those people affected in the fires would vote National if they're country people. If he means by Green voters that they're properties burnt because they didn't burn off. you're no longer allowed to burn off. You need permits. I could also say Joyce lost his seat as DPM because he didn't put a rubber on it. Daft cunt.

Barnaby; ugly name, ugly man, ugly soul

Gotta love blaming the Greens for anything - it's not like coalition has been in charge for all but 6 of the last 23 years. What a fuckwit.

A catastrophe can't "get worse." It's already the worst.

[Quote] Barnaby Joyce, infamous feuder with Amber Heard and married Conservative Catholic who has Two love children with a staffer says bushfire victims are Greens voters.

What a drongo.

Is someone saving the koalas?

[quote]A catastrophe can't "get worse."

Wanna bet?

I’m not in NSW. I’m in Qld, there was a fire 3 km from our house today and the winds were 40km an hour. Horrific.

estimated 450 koalas are dead. Poor koalas. They didn't vote for anyone.

Apathy kills, r35.

I just check their website and the Greens do support clearing scrub and back burning, so I don’t know what Barnaby is on about.

My uncle back burned His property over winter. He rang the fire department the week before and got on with it.

Honestly the Government blaming the Greens (who I loath myself because of their racist policies and they had a homophobic candidate running in a seat in Melbourne who thankfully didn't get elected) is pathetic because the Greens have NO POWER and can not dictate what is done, how its done and when its done. All that responsibly lies with the LNP. The greens have no power whatsoever on back burning policies or removal of fire risks. This lies all with the LNP.

Finally the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian and the Sky News web site fire coverage is no longer behind the pay wall.

I was checking Our ABC for updates.

Russell Crowe owns a farm around Coffs Harbour/Nana Glen in NSW.

His family (parents, brother & family) live there.

Fire hit his place yesterday per his Twitter.

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Crowe has been out of the country for some time.

I've no way to know how the fire crews were assigned.

I am reminded of the terrible fires last year with the Paradise fire and Malibu fire where one actress came back to her Malibu home and was complaining "Where are the fire trucks?" as if expecting to see them right in her area with all the fires breaking out. She sounded like a nitwit.

RE: the Malibu fires, was it Camille Grammer whose 2 luxury cars were moved by the fire fighters? I remember wondering if that was in their remit!

I've noticed the pink flame retardant on a lot of houses. This has not caught on in California, yet.. Sometimes the winds whip up so fast and furiously, that folks have no recourse but to flee like right fucking now. But occasionally, there's an effort to prevent/contain. Here in California, it just means folks turning on their garden hoses already with low water pressure.

This could actually be a Godsend for many homeowners. I can't imagine losing my home. I'm an atheist and I don't pray, but I really think about people who might come to lose everything.

A true-blue, dinky-di, Aussie cunt being a cunt in country NSW.

I think it's too late for Climate Change, we're just going to hope we can survive for whatever comes next.

We've gone past the point where everyday conservation will make a difference, the tipping point is behind us and things are starting to snowball, as the warmer climate leads to methane being released from permafrost and wildfires spiraling out of control, which is going to send the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere up exponentially.

And we humans can't even conserve, or plant more oxygen producers than we destroy. It's been nice knowing you bitches.

Bushfires are as Aussie as Violet Crumble and Tooheys. It isn't "climate change" or "global warming". It's Oz.

How are things really going on over there? The Daily Mail has relegated the bush fires well, well below celebrity shenanigans and the weird, sensationalistic stuff the DM usually traffics. Any fire danger to Sydney suburbs were far, far, down the page.

So is the rest of the world to take it that the danger is wholly or partially subsided. Even those down the page DM stories show charging walls of fire.

It's so bad that almost any part of the country could catch fire in the next few days. We have alerts set up for our area. People are stressed. Our normal rains have not come.