Australian Bush Fires (1 Viewer)

[Desertkiwi]

Just wanted to mention the terrible bush-fires hitting NSWs and other areas in Australia right now. The fires are so huge ash is drifting across the ditch to land in NZ also causing red sunsets and brown haze in the South Island.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/11/australian-bushfires-second-wave-of-smoke-to-blanket-new-zealand-on-wednesday.html

 

[waynepoo]

The smoke haze here in Brisbane the last couple of days is beyond anything I have seen in my sixty odd years, it looks like Beijing or New Delhi on a bad day! The bush fires are becoming more frequent, ferocious and deadly each year and our heroic fire fighters are struggling to cope. We have a state of emergency declared in the whole of NSW and parts of QLD with tomorrow declared as a catastrophic fire danger! And still we have state and federal governments in denial of climate change while clear prove stares them in the face, but hey I am sure some of them believe the world is also flat.

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[wayne556517]

Just another summer in Australia and we all know the dangers of living in our magnificent Aussie bush.
I bet most rebuild not sure about climate change it started on private property,do they burn off over there?
Our bush thrives on fire we had a close call last year but looking at it now the bush is magnificent.

 

[waynepoo]

Just another summer in Australia and we all know the dangers of living in our magnificent Aussie bush.
I bet most rebuild not sure about climate change it started on private property,do they burn off over there?
Our bush thrives on fire we had a close call last year but looking at it now the bush is magnificent.

We have high ranking veteran fire fighters telling the higher ups that what we are seeing is beyond anything in the past in so far as scale, ferocity and frequency and many siting climate change as a major contributor.

More than 20 former fire and emergency chiefs from multiple states and territories say Australia is unprepared for worsening natural disasters from climate change and governments are putting lives at risk.
In a statement issued before a federal election date is announced, 23 former emergency services leaders and senior personnel have called on both major parties to recognise the need for “national firefighting assets”, including large aircraft, to deal with the scale of the threat.
The signatories include: Greg Mullins, the second-longest serving fire and rescue commissioner in New South Wales and now a councillor with the Climate Council; Neil Bibby, a former chief executive of Victoria’s Country Fire Authority; Phil Koperberg, a former NSW rural fire service commissioner and former Labor MP and NSW environment minister.
The document calls on the next prime minister to meet former emergency service leaders “who will outline, unconstrained by their former employers, how climate change risks are rapidly escalating”.

Fires seen from space....

 

[Al Fisher]

Living in California, I can understand where your coming from. Our son, a Battalion Chief and wildfire specialist, and I have had a lot of discussions about the situation here. Fire will prevail under extreme weather, but political decisions make a great impact on being able to cope under normal conditions. Having a President who cuts money for fire supression on Federal lands (which includes much of California) than criticizes state officials for not doing more does not help.

Hang in there . . . the rains will come!

Bosun Al