Australia bushfires

The 2020s

Tomorrow is set to be the worst day of the bushfires that have been burning in NSW and Victoria over the last few weeks. Mass evacuations are ongoing and the situation is very serious.

mandrake04

Tomorrow is over 40 and it’s catastrophic conditions.

At the moment it’s not too bad, most fires are under control just 3 that are out of control.

BorneTobyWilde

How big is this fire, how many times bigger than the whole of Ireland is this fire 2, 3 ?

mandrake04

This gives you an idea

BorneTobyWilde

So basically whole of Ireland when it grows over next few days.

mandrake04

More or less, although a lot has burnt out by now.



This picture gives a better indication of individual fire sizes, some are very small but the larger ones are grey areas in the map.

ChikiChiki

Surprised to be only seeing a thread about it now. Have a lot of friends and family over there. It's an incredibly serious situation. Millions of animals killed, thousands of homes destroyed, multiple lives list.

Air quality in Sydney alone is gone to ****. People have been breathing smoky air for a couple of months.

A lot of the bushland that is burning are Eucalyptus trees and they tend to regenerate. This could be an ongoing issue for years to come.

mandrake04

Already a thread

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058036538

Bushfires are part of life in Australia.

The last large bushfires was back in 2013, a lot of the same areas that burned there burned again this year.

https://youtu.be/5fPAV9oy9aM?list=UUOEkGscgIYH05gZ-ldEagSA

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/as-it-happened-fears-of-mega-fire-on-day-5-of-nsw-bushfire-emergency

Muahahaha

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to be coming under a bit of pressure of his handling of it. He went to an area devasted by fires and residents were abusing him in the streets and volunteer firefighters refused to shake hands and blanked him. Awkward.

X111111111111

Muahahaha wrote: »

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to be coming under a bit of pressure of his handling of it. He went to an area devasted by fires and residents were abusing him in the streets and volunteer firefighters refused to shake hands and blanked him. Awkward.

He's handling it fine it's just the usual outrage mob looking for something to moan about.

Maewyn Succat

X111111111111 wrote: »

He's handling it fine it's just the usual outrage mob looking for something to moan about.

Are you serious? In what way has he handled any of it fine?

Millionaire only not

Maewyn Succat wrote: »

Are you serious? In what way has he handled any of it fine?

Dead right he should have a fire extinguisher to put it out !
He’s a public servant what the hell do they think a person can do
Fair enough his holiday thing wasn’t right , but they were probably booked and paid for !

lab man

seemingly the aborigines told the farmers that this would happen

Timistry

lab man wrote: »

seemingly the aborigines told the farmers that this would happen

Of course they did, since its their ancestral land which they have roamed and farmed for 10,000s of years and have a deep understanding of.

jam_mac_jam

X111111111111 wrote: »

He's handling it fine it's just the usual outrage mob looking for something to moan about.

Yeah those firefighters are snowflakes.

Ineedaname

Millionaire only not wrote: »

Dead right he should have a fire extinguisher to put it out !
He’s a public servant what the hell do they think a person can do
Fair enough his holiday thing wasn’t right , but they were probably booked and paid for !

I doubt anyone expects him to be out in the field in fairness. But when you consider the fact that the country is burning and you've repeatedly shown you don't give a **** you're going to get criticized.

X111111111111

Timistry wrote: »

Of course they did, since its their ancestral land which they have roamed and farmed for 10,000s of years and have a deep understanding of.

But i thought all this was due to climate change?

Dakota Dan

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Surprised to be only seeing a thread about it now. Have a lot of friends and family over there. It's an incredibly serious situation. Millions of animals killed, thousands of homes destroyed, multiple lives list.

Air quality in Sydney alone is gone to ****. People have been breathing smoky air for a couple of months.

A lot of the bushland that is burning are Eucalyptus trees and they tend to regenerate. This could be an ongoing issue for years to come.

The greens are to blame, banning controlled burning and fire breaks.

Dakota Dan

mandrake04 wrote: »

Already a thread

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058036538

Bushfires are part of life in Australia.

The last large bushfires was back in 2013, a lot of the same areas that burned there burned again this year.

https://youtu.be/5fPAV9oy9aM?list=UUOEkGscgIYH05gZ-ldEagSA

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/as-it-happened-fears-of-mega-fire-on-day-5-of-nsw-bushfire-emergency

Except they didn’t hype it up in the media back then as agenda 21/30 was too far away.

Dakota Dan

X111111111111 wrote: »

But i thought all this was due to climate change?

The thought made a fool of you.

Maewyn Succat

Millionaire only not wrote: »

Dead right he should have a fire extinguisher to put it out !
He’s a public servant what the hell do they think a person can do
Fair enough his holiday thing wasn’t right , but they were probably booked and paid for !

The last thing Australia needs is Scott Morrison with a fire extinguisher.
Here are some ways he could have dealt with it better:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/2-top-story-of-2019-11-things-scott-morrison-could-have-done-for-the-bushfire-emergency--but-didnt,13449

As usual he chose to ignore advice given to him though and do his own thing.

Timistry

X111111111111 wrote: »

But i thought all this was due to climate change?

Well climatologists have been saying for years that Australian summers will become longer and drier. Some parts have not seen notable rain in a few years now which has turned the bus into a tinder box. The models are slowly being verified over time.

Pauliedragon

Instead of apportioning blame and political points scoring how about we just wish everybody over there the best and hope they get through as best they can. It ****s me that every time a disaster happens whether it's fire/flood/hurricane etc people are more interested in scoring against the other side rather than actually worrying about the poor ****ers on the front line. I lived over there for a long time and my only concern is the safety of everybody. Good luck lads and keep safe. We can deal with the political fall out once they have everything under control which hopefully will be sooner rather than later.

Ned Led Zeppo

I'm surprised not a single firebreak cut in the jungle of forestry.
There's more trees than sense, in that country.

Pauliedragon

Ned Led Zeppo wrote: »

I'm surprised not a single firebreak cut in the jungle of forestry.
There's more trees than sense, in that country.

The green party are responsible for that. Have you noticed they've been very quiet during this disaster.

listermint

Pauliedragon wrote: »

The green party are responsible for that. Have you noticed they've been very quiet during this disaster.

Ha ha ha haaaa


You lasted one post before you broke your previous post.

. hypocrite.

Spanish Eyes

Isolationist countries like Oz ask for no help from anyone, or so it seems to me. Sorry if that offends anyone, but with a PM like yer man SCOMO, gawd help them.

Christian Fundie who thinks these fires will sort out the men from the boys and has no truck with climate issues. Oh dear.

Pauliedragon

listermint wrote: »

Ha ha ha haaaa


You lasted one post before you broke your previous post.

. hypocrite.

No I didn't. I blame all sides of politics for whats going on there. My last post was replying specifically replying to Zeppos question.

rossie1977

Muahahaha wrote: »

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to be coming under a bit of pressure of his handling of it. He went to an area devasted by fires and residents were abusing him in the streets and volunteer firefighters refused to shake hands and blanked him. Awkward.

He's a goofball. Was holidaying in Hawaii middle of crisis until public backlash brought him back to Australia.

Harry Palmr

The drier it is and the hotter is it for longer the quicker stuff burns.

In the long run it could mean zones beyond the big cities and towns are uninsurable for fire risk. In the meantime there will be plenty of premature deaths among the sick, elderly etc from inhalation.

mandrake04

I’m a voter and Scott Morrison even though he is wasn’t really the man in charge of what is a state matter he shouldn’t have went on holidays but should stayed home and supported his Premiers he is a fool and he knows it now

Bush fires nothing new, they come in cycles and the climate card is over played on this and the Indian Ocean Diphole not well understood.

The reality is late wet winter/early Spring (September) followed by dry hot summer, and due to westerly winds decreased window for HRBs. The greens have their mitts over it to a certain extent but legislation on who can HRB between National Parks and RFS which is State government all has part to play.

Even old big ears Daniel Andrew’s admits to much Politics and we should be all pulling together.