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According to my calculations and estimates, the number of individuals
around Australia whose arson has contributed to the current bushfire
crisis has now passed 200.
This figure is not presented as a counter-argument to those who blame
the fires on climate change. Most people (I hope) understand that trees
tend not to spontaneously combust, no matter what the air temperature
is; when we talk about bushfires starting naturally, we are talking
about lightning strikes igniting tinder. The climate change argument
posits that the more extreme weather conditions – higher temperatures,
drought, etc. – make fires, however started, much more destructive and
much more difficult to control and extinguish. These are debates to be
had between climatologists, forestry experts and fire fighters. What is
painfully clear, however, that Australia has a firebug crisis. It will
no doubt be up to future royal commissions and inquiries to calculate
exactly what proportion of the current loss and destruction can be
attributed to human action, but I suspect it will be a significant one.
Man might be making climate change, but man is most definitely making
fires start."
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