The advertising wing for Big Government is out claiming that our cars cause extended fire seasons. Since they can’t claim that CO2 causes droughts or controls rainfall, there’s not much else they can claim.
But Fire-seasons don’t create bigger fires. The longest fire season in the world is possibly in Marble Bar but that’s not where the pyroconvective monster firestorms are.
If fuel loads were managed, longer fire seasons might allow for more small fires, but they wouldn’t be big bad ones. Plus, there’s the thing that a high fuel load without lightning or an arsonist, is just a forest.
At one point 42% of fires last summer in NSW were man-made. 9% were “natural.
Fire season extends by almost four months in parts of Australia
The fire season in parts of eastern Australia has lengthened by almost four months since the 1950s, with climate change a prominent driver in the trend, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
Karl Braganza, head of the bureau’s climate monitoring, told the first day of public hearings for the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements on Monday that the South Coast of NSW and eastern Victoria now see fire weather arriving three months earlier, occurring towards the end of winter rather than the end of spring.
Fires are not where the heat is, they’re where the fuel is
What you need to know about fires, rain and droughts
- The Hotter-Drier “Climate change” myth — the rain in Australia has always been erratic, no CO2 trend
- A history of droughts and flooding rains from 1782 – 1865 in Australia
- Blockbuster: 178 years of Australian rain has nothing to do with CO2, worst extremes 1849, 1925, 1950
- Climate change and bushfires — More rain, the same droughts, no trend, no science
- Prof Andy Pitman admits droughts are not worse and not linked to climate change
- 57 Bushfire Inquiries isn’t enough. We need one more for leaders to hide behind
- Aboriginals didn’t need a water bomber God to save them from Government nurtured firestorms
- Climate change and bushfires — More rain, the same droughts, no trend, no science
- Off the charts: Bushfires may be 20 times more intense than the largest fires humans can control
- Figure this: Andy Pitman says “we don’t understand what causes droughts” but “the indirect link is clear”!
- On average bushfires burn an amazing 50 million ha every year in Australia
- ABC says Arson = 1%. NSW police say 42% of fires are man-made. 9% are “natural”. Rest unknown. (So far)