Australian bush fires a repeat, not climate change

From Tony:

https://realclimatescience.com/2020/01/2019-fires-much-less-extensive-than-1939/

2019 Fires Much Less Extensive Than 1939

Posted on January 10, 2020 by tonyheller

Jo Nova posted this map of the bushfire extent in Victoria during January, 1939

Inferno on Black Friday 1939: 71 deaths, 3,700 buildings, too much fuel and “lit by the hand of man” « JoNova

Compare with satellite imagery from January 4, 2019.

EOSDIS Worldview

It appears that the burn area was much larger in 1939.

After the 1939 fires in Australia, there was a commission set up to study what happened and what could have been done differently.

1. The fires were man-made
2. There was a long drought followed by extreme heat
3. Almost the entire state of Victoria appeared to be on fire on January 13
4. It was dark as night at midday
5. The amount of controlled burning was “ridiculously inadequate” 

  

Report of the Royal Commission to inquire into the causes of and measures taken to prevent the bush fires of January, 1939 and to protect life and property and the measures to be taken to prevent bush fires in Victoria and to protect life and property in the event of future bush fires.

Two days earlier was the hottest day on record in Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide.

11 Jan 1939 – HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD IN THREE CAPITALS Seven Deaths: Many People Collapse – Trove

Koalas nearly went extinct.

19 Aug 1940 – KOALAS FACE EXTINCTION – Trove

01 Feb 1939 – BUSHFIRE DAMAGE. – Trove

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Devastation After The Fires

Posted on January 9, 2020 by tonyheller

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Koalas Face Extinction After Bushfires

Posted on January 9, 2020 by tonyheller

19 Aug 1940 – KOALAS FACE EXTINCTION – Trove

08 Dec 1953 – Protection of koalas – Trove

19 Nov 1953 – KOALAS ARE A DYING RACE – Trove

06 Apr 1936 – BUSH FIRES – Trove

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New Video : Koalas Face Extinction After The Bushfires

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Imaginary Changes Of Climate

Posted on January 8, 2020 by tonyheller

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New Video : Past The Journalism Tipping Point

Posted on January 7, 2020 by tonyheller

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Climate Doublespeak

Posted on January 7, 2020 by tonyheller

1. You should debate a climate scientist
2. You aren’t qualified to debate a climate scientist

Apparently they won’t debate me because they are sure they would win.

Classic alarmists

Mark Townsend and Paul Harris writing at The Guardian.com, Feb. 21, 2004:

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world. . . .

Climate change ‘should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern’, say the authors, Peter Schwartz, CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network.

Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 ‘catastrophic’ shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. . . .

Randall told The Observer that the potential ramifications of rapid climate change would create global chaos. ‘This is depressing stuff,’ he said. ‘It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat.’

Randall added that it was already possibly too late to prevent a disaster happening. ‘We don’t know exactly where we are in the process. It could start tomorrow and we would not know for another five years,’ he said.