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[donnashuggy]

Tony Abbott says UN climate head is 'talking through her hat' about fires

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/23/abbott-figueres-talking-hat-bushfires?CMP=twt_gu

[***super_nova***]

It really does not take a genius to understand that:

hotter temperatures + stronger winds = more severe bush fires

Therefore if the climate change prediction is for warmer and dryer winters and more severe weather with stronger winds, we will have more and worse fires.  These fires are just a  harbingers of things to come.

[cherry*135]

I agree with Tony Abbott's opinion on this issue.

Ms Figueres said yesterday bushfires are “absolutely” linked to climate change and said the Abbott government would pay a heavy price for walking away from a carbon price.

“The World Meteorological Organisation has not established the direct link between this wildfire and climate change - yet,” she said in an interview with CNN.

Perhaps Ms Figueres could have waited until the WMO does or doesn't establish a direct link, until then it is just her opinion.

Bush fuel is to blame for NSW blazes, not United Nations' climate change theory, experts say

CLAIMS by the United Nations that climate change was "absolutely" linked to the current NSW bushfires was dismissed as rubbish by both veteran experts and local residents who survived previous Blue Mountains infernos.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/bush-fuel-is-to-blame-for-nsw-blazes-not-united-nations-climate-chan...

[cherry*135]

Research by Phil Cheney, a former head of CSIRO Bushfire Research, has found "the effect of (increasing temperatures forecast by the IPCC) on bushfire behaviour, by itself, will be trivial''.

"Fire intensity is far more significantly affected by fuel quantity, fuel dryness and wind strength than it is by temperature,'' he said.

In November 1957, bushfires driven by gale-force winds destroyed 25 homes, shops, schools, a church and a hospital in the Blue Mountains, and four young men died.

Local resident John Macgregor-Skinner, who was part of the 1957 fire-fighting effort, said yesterday it had been 5 degrees hotter then.

[para-sights]

Not sure a retiree, a local resident and a former worker (who doesn't ouright dismiss global temp rises) really qualify as"experts" who could overide the UN report...

[cherry*135]

At least they live in Australia! The UN comment was an opinion, not based on any facts or official reports.