watt price tully wrote:stui magpie wrote:......
No motivation from the massive swing against Labor in mining seats I'm sure, but still.
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Well done Albo
Yes that solves it
On the other hand all ex fire chiefs including the CFA say "Climate Change" has played an intsrtrumental role in the current bush fires
(and they're not trying to be populist)
Instrumental role does not equal cause. The weather conditions in previous months are hardly unprecedented. Temperatures and rainfall may have been outside the average, but that's how averages work. We've had worse conditions before, sometimes it's lead to fires sometimes not.
Leaving your mind reading ability where you can discern their intent, it would hardly be a good look for the ex fire chiefs to throw the state governments under the bus for poor forestry management.
Let me see, should I quote someone from the shallow end of the gene pool as some one did earlier, quote a politician who wants votes from the deplorables in Queensland electorate or prefer some people with first hand knowledge? ...tough question.
shallow end of gene pool? Deplorables? Classy response.
However, given your penchant for quoting politicans then try this right wing Liberal NSW Minister and a Federal Minister to boot:
".
..NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean and his federal counterpart Sussan Ley have broken ranks with some Coalition colleagues and blamed Australia's devastating bushfires on climate change..."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-11/ ... e/11787498
Lovely misleading headline. Did you read the article?
The argument is over about climate change (apart of course from a few dying paroxysms of the looney right). The only debate is: timing, extent and what is to be done.
Relying on coal is not an answer and Australia cannot ask other countries (emitters) not to emit if we continue the way we have been
Great. So your solution to stopping bushfires is to focus on reducing CO2 emissions which should, if successful, start reversing global warming in a few decades, and in the meantime we just throw our collective hands up and chant "climate change" everytime we get bushfires rather than trying to do practical prevention. Great plan.
Coal is not the answer, but until China and India in particular develop alternative means to generate electricity, they're going to keep burning coal and if they don't get it from us they'll burn low quality rubbish which pollutes more. Or would you prefer they go without power?
Electricity generation in Aus is the responsibility of the states, not the feds. Solar is already producing a fair percentage of our power and that's causing all sorts of issues with the grid. See WA where the state still owns the power company.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-01/ ... d/11731452
It's the people who simply regurgitate populist cant without understanding the depth and breadth of issues at play who should have their intelligence challenged
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
who'd a thunk?