http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/how-rupert-murdoch-is-influencing-australias-bushfire-debate/ar-BBYQbjU?li=AAgfYrC&OCID=AVRES000
How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate
The idea that “greenies” or environmentalists would oppose measures to prevent fires from ravaging homes and lives is simply false. #####
Really?
Why can't people clear trees from around their homes in mountain/rural towns and villages without facing severe prosecution?
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It’s all part of what critics see as a relentless effort led by the powerful media outlet to do what it has also done in the United States and Britain — shift blame to the left, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change.#####
If people marching about waving placards think they can stop ice ages, the globe heating and cooling by itself, etc...[you could, once upon a time, walk from Australia to India, until the seas rose and swallowed the land bridge]....they have another think coming.
Both the Left and the Right in Australia, in a rush to capture the green vote, are seemingly responsible for some of the damage caused by the current bush[forest] fires.
Most of the fires started by lightning...some by arsonists..and some by accidents.
Most of the people who have died did so trying to defend their homes with 'garden hoses' against firestorms.
Some firefighters have died, another one yesterday.
Basically, lightning started the fires. "Climate change" they cry. Para; "Change to electric cars and there won't be any more forest fires".
"Shut down the coal-fired power stations and there won't be any more droughts".
Bunkum.
There have always been 'hot winds from the desert/outback', gusty winds, very strong winds. Also gusty southerly winds from the Southern Ocean.
Such winds caused a lot of the problems, fanned the flames of horror.
'Southern Ocean/'Great Southern Ocean'/'Antarctic Ocean'/'Austral Ocean'...it's the one people globally answering 'street talk' questions forget.
They name the others, but not this one.
Now it's all Rupert's fault! LOL
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