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Bushfires and climate change

More houses have been lost than ever before, but then there are more people than we have ever had before, five times as many as we had a century ago.

by Don Aitkin - 17/01/2020 - 54 comments

Are the bushfires a result of climate warming?

Bushfires have long been part of the Australian scene, but the recent outbreaks have been excessive.

by Peter Bowden - 16/01/2020 - 56 comments

Incendiary extinctions: Australian fires and the species effect

Australian governments, across colours and persuasions, have found managing the environment a problematic, and inconvenient affair.

by Binoy Kampmark - 13/01/2020 - 16 comments

When did the bushfires become woke?

If Australia is so 'diverse', 'inclusive' and 'anti-bigotry' as we make out to be - then why make a habit of singling out race at all?

by Vanessa de Largie - 10/01/2020 - 32 comments

Recent disastrous bushfires result mainly from ignoring lessons from the past

The messages from official inquiries into earlier bushfires had all been crystal clear and unanimous about what needed to be done.

by Brendan O'Reilly - 9/01/2020 - 24 comments

Should we fear a post-bushfire water quality crisis?

Those in the water industry who manage catchments and operate treatment plants have dealt with this issue regularly.

by Charles Essery - 8/01/2020 - 12 comments

Bush fires, Australia and climate change

Climate change has reached cult status and with the lemming-like adoration of characters like Greta et al, backburning is judged only to increase CO2 and therefore to be outcast.

by Charles Essery - 2/01/2020 - 217 comments

Fighting fires with fire

Mainly we must relearn two ancient skills - remove the fuel load everywhere and use fire to fight fire. We know that works.

by Viv Forbes - 31/12/2019 - 22 comments

When cricket and climate collide

Cricket is a game played in the open air for long periods, and this cricket season is being overshadowed, sometimes literally, by a long, dangerous fire season.

by David Rowe - 31/12/2019 - 6 comments

Australia's urban water supply: 'Crisis…. what crisis?'

In the 2000-2008 drought desalination plants were the

by Charles Essery - 30/12/2019 - 63 comments

The Map and the Territory: the problem with models

What we then get is policy-based evidence, rather than evidence-based policy. 'Climate change' is one of the areas the authors single out for attention.

by Don Aitkin - 18/12/2019 - 5 comments

Climate change accounting: the failure of COP25

Delegates spent an extra two days and nights attempting to reach a deal covering carbon reduction measures before the Glasgow conference in 2020.

by Binoy Kampmark - 17/12/2019 - 18 comments

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