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Thursday, January 16, 2020
Op-ed: The Hidden Truths Behind Australia's Bushfires By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
The pictures are heartbreaking and the death toll is staggering with
over a billion animal lives having already been lost as a country...as a
continent...burns with what seems like fires straight from the bowels
of hell. Sadly, these fires will continue to burn for many months to
come as the toll in animal and human lives lost increases. And yet it's
hard to believe that the hand of man might very possibly have started or
at least helped to fuel this latest round of what's being referred to
as apocalyptic type fires.
And no, I'm not talking “climate change” for Australia is no stranger
to fires at this time of year, as the country “down under” has a long
documented history of fires going back centuries. Bushfires they're
called...bushfires which officially started being recorded back in 1851,
well before the “climate change” mantra became the liberals and
globalists scare tactic phrase of the day. And from 1851 to date,
bushfires have seen over 800 people dying in said fires along with
billions of animal lives lost. And this devastation does not include the
actual destruction of property, the loss of animal habitats, or the
erosion and corresponding mudslides that would naturally occur until
there's a significant regrowth of plant life and grasses.
So while these fires race through dried out woodlands, grasslands,
brush and at times heavily forested areas, bushfires...which can and at
times do happen year round...mostly are worrisome during times of
naturally occurring cycles of drought and heat...translation: the spring
and summer months. And yet for all the destruction they cause bushfires
do play an important role in regards to Australia's ecosystem, in fact,
in controlled situations...with controlled being the operative word...bushfires
actually benefit said ecosystem. How so...very briefly...bushfires help
to clear grasslands for hunting and agricultural plantings in addition
to helping clear areas of overly dense vegetation and other naturally
occurring debris laying on the forest floor. Bushfires also help by
renewing animal habitats and by aiding certain native plants and trees
with reproduction...as in those species which have evolved over time to a
point where they actually rely on bushfires for the spreading of their
seeds.
And while bushfires are usually ignited by natural causes like
lightning strikes, sadly, in today's modern world bushfires tend to be
ignited via “arcing” (sparks) from overhead power lines, accidental
ignition in the course of agricultural clearing, outdoor machine
grinding and welding activities, campfires not being completely snuffed
out, carelessly dropped cigarettes and matches, and from what's called
controlled “burn escapes.” * And while bushfires spread based upon the
type and quantity of fuel available, it's the wind itself that supplies
said fires with additional oxygen...oxygen which in turn helps in
spreading the fires across land along with wind-borne embers embedded
within them.
But while all the above mentioned causes are truly accidental and unintended, it's the direct hand of man that has turned what are
naturally occurring yearly fires into a deadly hellfire inferno. In fact,
since November 2019, New South Wales police have questioned more than 180 individuals for fire-related offenses, including
the most unspeakable action of actually starting some of the fires. Included
in that number are 40 juveniles along with 24 individuals now having been charged with
intentionally setting fires...a charge that can bring up to 21 years in
prison. And with 27 innocent people and untold countless animals lives
now lost can rightful murder charges be far behind for some. More on
these numbers in a bit.
Arson has always been a serious problem in Australia especially,
during the summer months. In fact, arson has been both partially and
directly linked to some of the very worst of Australia’s bushfires including, in
part, to the February “2009 Black Saturday Bushfires.” These fires, in Victoria state, resulted from a combination of lightening strikes, downed
power lines and arson, and saw roughly 47 major bushfires
killing more than one million wild and domestic animals as well as 173
people while injuring over 500 others. Also, 450,000 “hectares” ** were
burned with 3,500 buildings, including more than 2000 private homes,
being destroyed. And while recovery from the February 2009 fires...fires
not contained until March 14th...included both an overhaul of Victoria's
emergency warning system as well as its building codes...said recovery
cost more than one billion dollars thereby making the “2009 Black Saturday
Bushfires” the worst natural disaster in Australia’s
modern history... until now that is.
And as I write this, to date, an estimated 5.9 million plus "hectares"
(roughly 15+ million acres with some now upping that figure to 19.9
million acres) have burnt, with the estimated cost of recovery currently
standing at two billion dollars and counting...that's in addition to
the now upward of a billion plus animal lives lost, many species of
which might now be facing possible extinction, and that includes koalas,
possums, kangaroos and wallabies, as well as possibly changing
Australia's ecosystem forever.
And while the “climate change” folks still continue to butt heads with
those trying to dispel their myth, the fact is that the weather does
indeed have something to do with the bushfires but said doing is not anything
new, for it's naturally occurring weather cycles...“climate
drivers” the Aussies call them...repeating themselves at the same time
each year...repeating themselves as they always have and always will.
Translation: these fires would be happening no matter the circumstances,
arson of course not withstanding, for Australia has always been a
continent riddled by major heat waves, including what some
are now calling “unseasonably high temperatures” coupled with both short and long
term droughts, both of which sees the expected drying out of vegetation
adding fuel, if you will, to the fires.
In fact, Queensland's rural Fire Service Assistant Commissioner Tony
Johnson recently stated that “the conditions sparking recent bushfires
isn't unprecedented but has attracted more political and media attention
than previously,” to which I add probably due to the record number of
animal deaths and the heartbreaking photos and videos of animals being
burned alive.
But also to be considered is the act of arson itself for the current
fires would not have been so all-consuming if not for the fact that, as
previously stated, arson has been proven to be a factor in some of the
fires. In fact, again as previously stated, a number of individuals are now
in custody and facing charges related to these still ongoing fires. And
while those who commit arson do so for varied reason, the Aussie
arsonists are a special kind of evil for even after the first horrific
animal photos were made public said individuals continued to play with
matches so to speak, thus leaving the New South Wales Police Department
(NSWPD) to appeal to the greater community to “provide footage and/or images
from phones, dashcams or other devices, that show any of the fires in
their infancy, even if only from a distance."
And as I write this, the NSWPD have questioned and/or charged an additional
159 people including 53 people who failed to comply with the previously
issued total fire ban, 47 people who so carelessly discarded lit
cigarettes or matches onto the parched drought stricken land, as well as
three disgusting individuals caught looting in bushfire
affected areas. And to make matters worse, NSW Rural Fire Service
Inspector Ben Shepherd told 'The Australian,' one of the country's
leading newspapers, that most of the fires had indeed been lit and the
flames exacerbated “by people disregarding the total fire bans.”
A special kind of stupid I'd say along with those who now define arson as “climate change.”
So who politically is shouldering the blame for the fires; where does
Australia go from here; can anything be done to quell the
spread of the fires; and what will the ultimate impact on Australia's
wildlife be what with now over a billion mammals, birds and reptiles
having perished?
To answer those questions it first must be understood that the worst
of the bushfire crisis is yet to come since history has shown that many
of Australia's worst bushfires occurred in the month of February. With
that said, public discontent is growing over not only the cause of the
fires but also, whether it be right or wrong, the seemingly inadequate
official response from Australia's government officials especially in
regards to power outages; food, fuel and water shortages; as well as
media stories of local residents bringing water to families trapped in
cars as they try to escape the flames...as they try to seek refuge on
Australia's beaches.
And while just last week the authorities urged a quarter of a
million people to evacuate their Victoria state homes ahead of a predicted renewed
heatwave that had already caused two major fires to merge into what's known as a
“megablaze,” ***politics as usual found a way to make it into the public
discourse, and in this case maybe rightfully so. Australians of all
political leanings have claimed that both Labor and Liberal-National
governments have left fire services seriously under-resourced,
under-staffed, and ignored the warnings about escalating fire dangers
given by scientists, fire experts, and former firefighting chiefs.
In
fact, last April and again in May, former Fire and Rescue NSW
Commissioner Greg Mullins wrote to Prime Minister Scott Morrison
requesting an urgent meeting to discuss additional funding for
firefighting and actions he felt were needed to address what many
believed to be “climate change” along with a predicted upcoming
dangerous fire season.
And while I'm not familiar with Australian politics per say nor with
its business as usual political skullduggery, I do know that laying blame on the weather solves nothing and in fact helps no one
for it's here and now tangibles that matter most. And to that affect
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was at least man enough to admit in a recent interview
that there were "things I could have handled on the ground much better."
Also, rightfully acknowledging the tremendous pressure fire fighters and fire
services were facing, Morrison went on to state that he would seek a
royal commission review, which is a type of public inquiry, into the
country's response to the current bushfire crisis but did so while
defending his government's response to said fires, which he said took
into account the supposed effect “climate change” has had on the
bushfires.
As far as the actual logistics concerning the fires especially in
regards to the people's call to reduce carbon emissions, the prime
minister stated that his government was on track to "meet and beat" its
designated targets...targets where under the 'Paris Climate Accord,'
Australia had pledged to cut carbon emissions by 26% to 28% by 2030
compared to its 2005 levels. And while I personally believe that carbon emissions have more to do with pollution than it does with the weather,
and while many in Australia are pressing the issue of doing away with
fossil fuels almost in its entirety, at least Prime Minister Morrison
knows that truly is not the answer nor is it feasible let alone wise.
So while Australia's understaffed and under equipped firefighters
continue fighting fires that show no real sign of abating anytime soon,
hundreds of U.S. firefighters are currently deployed or tasked to deploy
to assist their Australian counterparts in battling the still raging
bushfires. After all, the Australian Fire and Emergency Service
Authorities Council sent 139 firefighters to help with past wildfires in
California so it's only right that we help them in return. And other
countries are sending firefighting help as well including Canada, New
Zealand, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. And Israel has sent direct aid in
helping with the multitude of injured animals.
As for the animal population and Australia's ecosystem itself only
time will tell how much or if any of it will recover in total let alone
in part. And even before the start of the current round of fires Australia's indigenous animal population and its unique ecosystem were already
threatened by invasive species, habitat destruction, and some say
“climate change,” but never to the degree of seeing so much land being
burnt at once along with the staggering animal death toll and ecosystem
destruction. But with fire being a natural part of Australia's
landscape, “Mother Nature” herself as she has in the past tends to heal
all...in time that is...just as she tends to set right man's wrongs. And
maybe that alone will be Australia's eventual saving grace if only the wackos
and the politicians let her do the job she was destined to do.
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* A burn escape is a fire lit to clear an area of
vegetation in the face of an approaching bushfire so that when the
primary fire reaches the point where the “burn
escape”
fire started the primary fire cannot continue, as there is nothing
there to burn.
** A hectare is
a metric unit of square measure, equal to 100 acres (2.471 acres or
10,000 square meters). *** A megablaze is a very large wildfire that typically covers more than 100,000 acres.
Copyright @ 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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Andresen and Diane Sori discuss 'The Hidden Truths Behind Australia's Bushfires'; 'Impeachment: Pelosi's Kobayashi Maru'; and important news of
the
day.
So while these fires race through dried out woodlands, grasslands,
brush and at times heavily forested areas, bushfires...which can and at
times do happen year round...mostly are worrisome during times of
naturally occurring cycles of drought and heat...translation: the spring
and summer months. And yet for all the destruction they cause bushfires
do play an important role in regards to Australia's ecosystem, in fact,
in controlled situations...with controlled being the operative word...bushfires
actually benefit said ecosystem. How so...very briefly...bushfires help
to clear grasslands for hunting and agricultural plantings in addition
to helping clear areas of overly dense vegetation and other naturally
occurring debris laying on the forest floor. Bushfires also help by
renewing animal habitats and by aiding certain native plants and trees
with reproduction...as in those species which have evolved over time to a
point where they actually rely on bushfires for the spreading of their
seeds.
And while the “climate change” folks still continue to butt heads with
those trying to dispel their myth, the fact is that the weather does
indeed have something to do with the bushfires but said doing is not anything
new, for it's naturally occurring weather cycles...“climate
drivers” the Aussies call them...repeating themselves at the same time
each year...repeating themselves as they always have and always will.
Translation: these fires would be happening no matter the circumstances,
arson of course not withstanding, for Australia has always been a
continent riddled by major heat waves, including what some
are now calling “unseasonably high temperatures” coupled with both short and long
term droughts, both of which sees the expected drying out of vegetation
adding fuel, if you will, to the fires.
As for the animal population and Australia's ecosystem itself only
time will tell how much or if any of it will recover in total let alone
in part. And even before the start of the current round of fires Australia's indigenous animal population and its unique ecosystem were already
threatened by invasive species, habitat destruction, and some say
“climate change,” but never to the degree of seeing so much land being
burnt at once along with the staggering animal death toll and ecosystem
destruction. But with fire being a natural part of Australia's
landscape, “Mother Nature” herself as she has in the past tends to heal
all...in time that is...just as she tends to set right man's wrongs. And
maybe that alone will be Australia's eventual saving grace if only the wackos
and the politicians let her do the job she was destined to do.
