Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova The government backed Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been caught red handed deleting a facebook post which demonstrates their complicity providing uncritical publicity to a climate activist campaign to disrupt Australia’s bushfire safety controlled burn programme.
The following is a post on an official ABC Facebook page which has been removed from Facebook, but which can still be reached, at least for a short time, via Google Web Cache.
Click the google cache link of the deleted facebook post and see for yourself – the google cache link will likely stop working in the near future.
The regions named in the deleted facebook post have been devastated by huge bushfires, or are under threat.
It is disgusting that the ABC encouraged this murderously irresponsible climate activist campaign by providing them with uncritical publicity. But it is even more outrageous the Australian Government ABC is trying to remove evidence of their involvement.
Whatever happened to the Ozzie farm family taken to task for land clearing to prevent fires? They were reported on Wuwt as I recall. It was a result of Oz including bush areas on private land as CO2 sequestering.
You mean this guy?
https://www.smh.com.au/national/fined-for-illegal-clearing-family-now-feel-vindicated-20090212-85bd.html
It is high time these people started facing criminal charges for their climate lies.
Not too little and not too much but just right for some-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=&v=jLgrxYbj5OU&feature=emb_logo
although it’s an ill wind as they say for the many-
Just think of the cash and materiel that will flow to the firies “due to climate change”.
It didn’t take long for the local chapter of the world wide cult to come out bleating for the usual–
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/company-news/proposed-disaster-levy-for-heavy-industry/ar-BBYyY4K
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/tony-abbott-former-australian-pm-tells-israeli-radio-the-world-is-in-the-grip-of-a-climate-cult/ar-BBYz9p0
Airbrushing history and statements works most of the time and with almost all Australians.
Loss of accountability is a first-order forcing of progress corruption. Our [unplanned] Posterity will not even know what integrity was. Extinction rebellion.
This isn’t the first time that environmentalists (e.g. Green lobbyists) have endangered flora, fauna, and people… persons, too. Conservation, not environmentalism.
The notion I saw expressed above a ways back that said the opposition to controlled burning in this specific area came from “the people” and not from the “environmental groups” is horse malarkey. Who do you think spends millions of dollars in order to influence this public opinion? Articles such as those published by the ABC also are designed to influence that opinion in accordance with a particular political agenda. Some of the richest foundations in the US dump millions of dollars annually into Fenton, for example, in order to further a leftist agenda through misinforming and outright disinforming the public. They are probably the most unethical organization there is and will stoop as low as it takes to reach their goals (“no rules, just results” is the progressive mantra) even if it means outright lying to the public. They’re rather disgusting.
Australia is home to Flora that is fire resistant and in some cases that means specific plants and trees will only survive if burnt.
The Australian Plants Society (Victoria) list 32 fire resistant plants and 80 fire tolerant plants (https://apsvic.org.au/fire-resistant-and-retardant-plants/)
I have never ever seen plant advice in the UK that considers fire when choosing plants. Therefore, fire must be an integral part of the Australian land.
Better land management is required which includes keeping the land hydrated.
Many deskbound “land managers” don’t listen to this guy. They should.
I wayback machined the Google cache of the 4 September story some days ago: Link.
I’ve also saved the 22 Oct followup story here: Link.
For some reason part of the second webpage’s text turned into German, but the story itself is still in English.
370 hectares of an identified and necessary burn was reduced to just 9. So 97% of the planned area was neglected. This was a small burn. How much of the rest of the state has suffered similar neglect I wonder?
“Why delete the post?”
One reason I can think of is to avoid potentially violent confrontation. Anyone who has lost their home will not take kindly to protests over controlled burning.
This is clearly a very sensitive issue.
Cheers
M
The media is already blaming Scott Morrison for this years bushfires and losses. No-one ever looks at state policies with regards to hazard burns.
Would goats help clear the underbrush? They’ve worked in other areas.
I suspect the ABC is trying to protecting the protesting groups from embarrassment, more than or rather than protecting itself.
Do ya think it might be because the people on the photos received all kinds of threats against their lives? Imagine the tension, even though No Nova goes onto admit the protested burn off would have done zero to help stop the current situation. Talk about an agenda.
Delingpole as a nice take on all this:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/02/greens-made-australia-bush-fires-worse/
Nick, technically you are correct, prescribed burns were not “stopped”, but they have been reduced more than 50% since the 1950s. I am not guessing that fire management officials recommended this move, so I would blame “conservationists” (uninformed progressive postmodernists) by default. Do you think that change might be related to the increased area of wildfires?
Historical Prescribed Burns
“but they have been reduced more than 50% since the 1950s”
I don’t believe you. Your graph gives no sources, but is nothing like the history of fire in Eastern Australia. The title suggests that it is data for somewhere in WA. There was no large scale scheme for prescribed burning of forest in the 1950s. I was part of a CSIRO workshop in 1973 at which Phil Cheney was trying to get one started. It was happening gradually.
That is West Australia data for sure, specifically the southwest. Similar data don’t appear to be available for other areas, possibly because there isn’t any. Is it possible that the lack of controlled burns in the rest of the country (e.g. Eastern Australia) is a major part (if not all) of the current problem? How did the program you tried to start in 1973 get along since then?
The question is, what is “prescribed burning” burning. I suspect the WA data is recording burning for land clearance on the fringes of the wheat belt.
I linked here a history of prescribed burning in the E Central region of Victoria, where our most damaging bushfires have occurred (until this year). It has been pretty much a gradual increase, with variation due to wetness of years, among other things.
I see that thread. The conclusion appears to be that while prescribed burns in that area have increased, they are still woefully inadequate. Did you advocate for adequate levels of controlled burns at that workshop in 1973? From what the aboriginals used to do, it looks like any given part of the country should have no more than 2-3 years of fuel growth since the last burn (whether from a wildfire or a human-caused one). Certainly that should be the case within several km of any human habitation or farming activity. How close are we to that?
The data is for South West WA it’s the title of the graph.
Again you are just making stuff up about things you know nothing about
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Here on the map it is the yellow bit … The Green bit is called the South West
The current annual budget for prescribed burns in the area is 200,000ha, so they met the budget.
The problem is as per the graph that budget has been coming down per year
An interesting map to look at is the sept 2019 fuel load hazzard map
https://www.bnhcrc.com.au/hazardnotes/63
It would be interesting to overlay the areas currently burning .. lets look
https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/
Oh gee that is a surprise isn’t it 🙂
Steve,
“The conclusion appears to be that while prescribed burns in that area have increased”
That may be the conclusion, but that starting point, as said often here, was that prescribed burning had been stopped by Greens.
“Did you advocate for adequate levels of controlled burns at that workshop in 1973?”
I was six months out of my PhD, and was just listening. Phil Cheney was very strong on the subject; he had supporters, and, as I recall, no opposition. But it wasn’t a decision-making body.
“From what the aboriginals used to do”
There is much myth-making about that. But this is armchair stuff. What if the bush just won’t burn (in the brief window where burning is safe)?
“…I don’t believe you…”
Priceless.
Thanks to Daniel Coughlin for some decent journalistic digging to put things into perspective for us-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/photos/australias-most-deadly-and-destructive-bushfires/ss-BBX0NlO#image=1
You never know perhaps Aunty could do likewise with history instead of deleting it when it doesn’t suit the climate cult storyline-
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-wildfires-bushfires-latest-tony-abbott-climate-change-scott-morrison-a9268801.html
That’s telling them Tony and about time too.
” climate activists sabotaged fire safety forest management by occupying forests scheduled for controlled burns”
The usual myth-making. The linked report says that some Nowa Nowa residents objected to a controlled burn where they lived. There is no evidence that they are climate activists, even if Mary worries about climate change. There is no evidence that there were even any significant numbers. Mary from Nowa Nowa is mentioned, and also two from Mossiface. Conservationists generally have supported controlled burning.
“local regional radio presenters criticising greens for their disastrous campaigns to prevent controlled burns”
Local regional radio presenters are not always reliable sources of unbiased facts. How about some evidence that these “disastrous campaigns” even happened, let alone whether they actually prevented controlled burning?
Utter nonsense. They’re greens concerned about climate change, so they are climate activists. What do you want Nick, a signed affidavit?
Don’t be surprised if some of these arsonists aren’t of the traditional type. I suspect some are climate change activists
The Google cache link is now returning 404 error.
So – was this fake news ? Or Google wiping the evidence !!??
The distortions and disinformation in most of these comments is an example of refusing to read science facts and to face these facts. Like an ostrich sticking its head in the sand, it is so much easier to blame and insult those who have bothered to read the evidence. Climate change is happening right now, and will continue to happen whether people believe the mass of evidence or not. The research generated by international scientists from all scientific contexts form a very clear and truthful analysis, to ignore it is your choice, eventually the sand will be too hot even for the ostrich to stick his head in.