{"id":273719,"date":"2023-08-15T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273719"},"modified":"2023-08-15T20:43:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:43:56","slug":"new-dark-ages-millions-of-animals-die-in-the-fires-of-eco-alarmism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273719","title":{"rendered":"New Dark Ages: Millions Of Animals Die In The Fires Of Eco-Alarmism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From climatechangedispatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0VIC JURSKIS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was only 235 years ago when our European elders introduced modern civilization and technology to an ancient culture. There was no nation in Australia, just a large number of tribes \u2013 sometimes friendly and sometimes fighting with their neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governor Arthur Phillip was instructed to protect the interests of Aboriginal people and did a reasonably good job. Even though he was speared for his troubles, he continued to try his best. [emphasis, links added]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British occupation of the continent had a minor impact on the Aboriginal population compared to smallpox, the common flu, and other diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first smallpox epidemic swept down from Torres Strait to Bass Strait around 1789. Aboriginal land management was disrupted, open forests turned to scrub, and the\u00a0first megafire occurred in South Gippsland around 1820.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Strzelecki\u2019s party went there\u00a0in 1840, it took them 26 days to struggle through 50 miles of dense young forest<\/strong>. They ate koalas to survive because there were no kangaroos or emus in the thick scrub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No other explorer saw koalas because they were rare in open grassy forests and absent from woodlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European pastoralists maintained some open country with grazing and burning. No one bothered about lightning strikes in the ranges until foresters started to become dedicated timber reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then they tried to\u00a0suppress fire to protect them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Alpine fires in 1926, Black Friday in 1939, the 1952 fires in southeast New South Wales, and the Western Australian Dwellingup fires in 1960,\u00a0foresters woke up and introduced broad-scale prescribed burning<\/strong>\u00a0including aerial ignition.\u00a0Forest health and safety improved<\/strong>\u00a0despite an\u00a0apparent trend of rising temperatures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1980s,\u00a0green academics<\/a>\u00a0introduced the theory that people are bad for the environment.<\/strong>\u00a0They embraced the Wilderness Myth and\u00a0burning was restricted.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2003, after hundreds of homes were burnt and people were killed in Canberra, the\u00a0Nairn Inquiry identified the problem that we weren\u2019t burning enough.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green academics and fire chiefs boycotted that parliamentary inquiry. They gave us the 2004 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Inquiry, which preached about \u2018Learning to Live With Bushfires\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we have\u00a0emergency response and evacuation instead of sustainable land and fire management<\/strong>. Over the years,\u00a0hundreds of people and countless millions of animals have died<\/strong>\u00a0as a consequence of\u00a0mismanaged forests<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0failure to keep up with controlled burn programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Black Saturday 2009 and\u00a0Black Summer 2019\/20<\/a>,\u00a0emergency leaders and academics used the Climate Cop-Out to cover their derrieres<\/strong>. The Bushfires Royal Commission turned into the Natural Disasters Royal Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Emergency Leaders for Climate Action\u00a0convinced our leaders that\u00a0alleged warming<\/a>\u00a0had\u00a0visited a holocaust upon us<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing unprecedented about Black Summer was the filthy, unmanaged scrub that fueled the firestorms. During the\u00a0Settlement Drought from 1790 to 1793<\/strong>, there were\u00a0three consecutive extreme fire seasons<\/strong>\u00a0in the area around Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one stage Parramatta had\u00a0three straight days<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0searing northwesterly gales<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0mid to high 40s temperatures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masses of\u00a0flying foxes and lorikeets dropped dead<\/strong>\u00a0on the ground in what is now Parramatta Park. Imagine what\u00a0Flannery<\/a>\u00a0and Mullins would say if that happened today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People were living in bark humpies, but there were no disasters, even though Aboriginal fires were burning 24\/7 to the northwest.\u00a0Firestorms couldn\u2019t develop in the\u00a0clean open landscape<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After we made it a wilderness, a\u00a0lightning strike in that same area ignited the world record Gospers Mountain fire<\/strong>\u00a0of more than half a million hectares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emergency generalissimos with fire engines, heavy waterbombers, and computer models\u00a0couldn\u2019t save buildings clad with brick and steel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not a climate crisis but a lack of common sense.<\/strong>\u00a0Now green academics are trying to turn Aboriginal culture to their own ends. There\u2019s\u00a0nothing magic about cultural burning<\/strong>\u00a0nor is it particular to any one race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of our elders, black, white, and brindle have the knowledge and experience to manage bushland. The academics advising governments don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frequent, mild burning is effectively illegal in New South Wales<\/strong>\u00a0because the\u00a0stupid rules and regulations are dictated by academics<\/strong>, not experienced practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t burn too often. In mild weather, fire will only carry after continuous flammable fuel has accumulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trick is to burn it as soon as possible \u2013 when it is easy and safe.<\/strong>\u00a0Even if people could control the climate, it wouldn\u2019t change that simple fact.\u00a0Equally important is\u00a0managing the whole landscape<\/a>, not just patches.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uncontrollable firestorms explode from the wilderness<\/strong>\u00a0because three-dimensionally\u00a0continuous fuels accumulate in the absence of management.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiring a waterbombing airforce costs zillions of dollars and\u00a0makes no difference to wildfires in severe weather<\/strong>. It takes money away from land management, hurts taxpayers, and lines privileged pockets. But, I suppose\u00a0it\u2019s a small part of the Climate Scam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Net Zero would mean using muscle power for mining and manufacturing and burning wood or dung for cooking and heating and lighting.\u00a0Fake renewables<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0wind, solar, whatever<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0are\u00a0net consumers of energy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0if you do the accounts\u00a0across their entire short life<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think of mining, transport, manufacture of generators and batteries, transport, site preparation, installation, construction of infrastructure, maintenance, dismantling, and disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoria is apparently going to\u00a0help to save the planet by banning\u00a0gas-fired cooking in new homes<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that\u00a0emissions from burning dirty brown coal<\/strong>\u00a0and transmitting electricity to your domestic hotplates\u00a0are less than those from\u00a0distributing and burning clean gas<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not that long ago that \u2018cooking with gas\u2019 meant you were ahead of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more at\u00a0Spectator AU<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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