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Australian Wildfires

Lisa Miles
Moving some posts re the Australian wildfires to a separate topic Luciano Bacco‍ 

Luciano Bacco:


Climate Crisis. The reason Australia is red. Australian wildfires have cloaked the country in a demonic red glow. As the new decade begins underneath a blood-red sky, the need for solutions is even more pressing. 
https://www.inverse.com/article/62058-why-do-wildfires-turn-the-sky-red?link_uid=9&utm_campaign=inverse-daily-2020-01-03&utm_medium=inverse&utm_source=newsletter 


And:
https://interestingengineering.com/a-magpie-in-australia-mimics-emergency-responder-sirens-because-things-are-that-bad?_source=newsletter&_campaign=a0bglamBn02qr&_uid=YQdJzWvdOG&_h=c5182a5a087e2b004ca4aca7c1e307f54e8a1507&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mailing&utm_campaign=Newsletter-04-01-2020

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/australian-bushfires-new-south-wales-koalas-sydney-a4322071.html#spark_wn=1



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    Many moons ago, when OMS minor had charcoal grey trousers and a blazer with a school crest, and could recite the school motto in Latin, he was told by a Geography Master that the reason a few early humans decided to take to a raft and head off over the blue horizon, with no idea if they would return,  was the certainty that there must be some land out there because they could see the smoke  - and that must be something on land that was burning. Turns out it was Australia.


    It was burning then, it's burning now - one has to wonder if it's the desire to both suppress the bush fires and not clear at least some of the vegetation for fire breaks if we are going to live in amongst it that might have some bearing on what's happening to our Antipodean friends at the moment. Weighed in some measure against digging up coal of course, just in case Greta puts my name on a list for re-education come the glorious revolution.


    A few interesting links above  - thank you Roger, which will of course be ignored by the hard of thinking.


    Regards


    OMS






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    Many moons ago, when OMS minor had charcoal grey trousers and a blazer with a school crest, and could recite the school motto in Latin, he was told by a Geography Master that the reason a few early humans decided to take to a raft and head off over the blue horizon, with no idea if they would return,  was the certainty that there must be some land out there because they could see the smoke  - and that must be something on land that was burning. Turns out it was Australia.


    It was burning then, it's burning now - one has to wonder if it's the desire to both suppress the bush fires and not clear at least some of the vegetation for fire breaks if we are going to live in amongst it that might have some bearing on what's happening to our Antipodean friends at the moment. Weighed in some measure against digging up coal of course, just in case Greta puts my name on a list for re-education come the glorious revolution.


    A few interesting links above  - thank you Roger, which will of course be ignored by the hard of thinking.


    Regards


    OMS






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