JoNova 1/1/2020
Pandemonium in Australia: Seven people have died (this season) and in the last day or so another 176 houses were destroyed in the NSW fires. At least two more are missing. It is a surreal debacle on the East Coast. People are driving into lakes to save themselves and their cars. (See the whole video). Take your breath away. What a spectacle. They chainsawed trees to cut a path the the lake so they could drive in. 89 houses were lost in the town near here.
Meanwhile, apparently the ABC is cleaning Facebook posts up where one Mary of Nowa Nowa (East Gippsland) protested a few months ago and stopped local prescribed burns. She said she was “more worried about climate changeâ€.
Could be a clue here about how the nation got its priorities so screwed?Back in September ABC Gippsland put a story on Facebook about how locals were protesting the spring prescribed burns which were “killing baby birds aliveâ€. The East Gippsland locals managed to stop the hazard reduction burns. We note also that the Forest Fire Management Victoria local manager said that the burns were planned “after extensive community consultationâ€. Which tells us just how impossibly hard it is to get even a small (tiny) cool burn done. We’re only talking about 300 ha.
Sharp eyed Michael Ayling noticed that the ABC deleted this Facebook post below. Most of it is still captured on Google Cache, though for some reason, if you wait on the google cache page even that will disappear soon too. Luckily skeptics with no budget are here to help the ABC and Google Cache keep historic records that may help explain the mystery of how a first world nation created such a catastrophe.
It’s probably not Mary’s fault that she thought climate change posed more threat than bushfires. She probably watches Their ABC.More:
http://joannenova.com.au/2020/01/abc-deleting-facebook-posts-on-how-protesters-stop-prescribed-burns-more-worried-about-climate-change-than-wildfires/
