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    Exclamation Nearly 200 People Arrested Across Australia For Deliberately Starting Bushfires

    Nearly 200 People Arrested Across Australia For Deliberately Starting Bushfires

    https://summit.news/2020/01/06/nearl...ing-bushfires/

    Yet media & celebrities continue to blame “climate change.”

    Published 14 hours ago on 6 January, 2020 Paul Joseph Watson

    Authorities in Australia have arrested close to 200 people for deliberately starting the bushfires that have devastated the country, yet the media and celebrities continue to blame “climate change” for the disaster.

    The fires have caused at least 18 deaths, destroyed thousands of homes, millions of hectares of land and killed hundreds of millions of animals.

    A total of 183 people have been arrested by police in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania for lighting bushfires over the last few months, figures obtained by news agency AAP show.

    In New South Wales, 24 people were arrested for arson, risking prison sentences of up to 25 years.

    In Queensland, police concluded that 103 of the fires had been deliberately lit, with 98 people, 67 of them juveniles, having been identified as the culprits.

    “The link between arsonists and the deadly fires that devastate Australia every summer is well known and well documented, with the rate of deliberately lit fires escalating rapidly during the school holiday period,” reports Breitbart’s Simon Kent.

    Around 85 per cent of bushfires are caused by humans either deliberately or accidentally starting them, according to Dr Paul Read, co-director of the National Centre for Research in Bushfire and Arson.

    “About 85 per cent are related to human activity, 13 per cent confirmed arson and 37 per cent suspected arson,” he said. “The remainder are usually due to reckless fire lighting or even just children playing with fire.”

    Read also highlighted the link between school holidays and kids starting fires, commenting, “School holidays are a prime time for fire bugs, but especially over summer.” The kids have got time to get out there and light, and the most dangerous adults choose hot days.”


    7NEWS Sydney

    @7NewsSydney
    Police are now working on the premise arson is to blame for much of the devastation caused this bushfire season. A strike force will investigate whether blazes were deliberately lit, and bring those responsible to justice. http://7NEWS.com.au @ebatten7 #NSWFires #7NEWS


    “Police are now working on the premise arson is to blame for much of the devastation caused this bushfire season,” reports 7 News Sydney.

    New environmental policies that restrict “prescribed burning,” where land owners burn off flammable ground cover in cooler months in a controlled manner so it doesn’t contribute to bushfires, have also exacerbated the problem.

    The fact that the bushfires were deliberately started and have nothing to do with man-made climate change hasn’t prevented that being the dominant narrative.

    Last week, Bernie Sanders blamed those who were “delaying action on climate change” for “the blood-red sky and unbreathable air in Australia because of raging forest fires.”

    Virtue signaling celebrities have also pounced on the issue to push their dogma, including at the Golden Globes last night when Australian-born Cate Blanchett asserted, “When one country faces a climate disaster, we all face a climate disaster.”
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    “It’s climate change! Why don’t you believe science!” Screech a bunch of leftists that never took a college level science course.
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    A story came out early that said it was a wannabe firefighter that had started some of the fires. Not an uncommon motive.

    Then you have campers and homeless people who have camp fires that get out of control.

    200 seems like a lot. Is there a majority or plurality of them with a common thread?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    A story came out early that said it was a wannabe firefighter that had started some of the fires. Not an uncommon motive.

    Then you have campers and homeless people who have camp fires that get out of control.

    200 seems like a lot. Is there a majority or plurality of them with a common thread?
    Well, according to the article, this is a yearly thing:

    “The link between arsonists and the deadly fires that devastate Australia every summer is well known and well documented, with the rate of deliberately lit fires escalating rapidly during the school holiday period,” reports Breitbart’s Simon Kent.
    Sounds like $#@! kids for the most part.

    But this year was much worse because:

    New environmental policies that restrict “prescribed burning,” where land owners burn off flammable ground cover in cooler months in a controlled manner so it doesn’t contribute to bushfires, have also exacerbated the problem.
    Nothing new there either.

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    Then there are the $#@! birds...

    Australian birds have weaponized fire because what we really need now is something else to make us afraid
    Raptors, including the whistling kite, are intentionally spreading grass fires in northern Australia, a research paper argues. The reason: to flush out prey and feast

    Dick Eussen thought he had the fire beat. It was stuck on one side of a highway deep in the Australian outback. But it didn’t look set to jump. And then, suddenly, without warning or obvious cause, it did.

    Eussen, a veteran firefighter in the Northern Territory, set off after the new flames. He found them, put them out, then looked up into the sky.

    What he saw sounds now like something out of a fairy tale or dark myth. A whistling kite, wings spread, held a burning twig in its talons. It flew about 20 metres ahead of Eussen and dropped the ember into the brittle grass.

    And the fire kicked off once again.

    All told that day, Eussen put out seven new flare-ups, according to a research paper.
    ...
    More: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/...eaponized-fire
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    https://www.theguardian.com/australi...n-false-claims

    Bots and trolls spread false arson claims in Australian fires ‘disinformation campaign’

    Online posts exaggerating the role of arson are being used to undermine the link between bushfires and climate change

    Bot and troll accounts are involved in a “disinformation campaign” exaggerating the role of arson in Australia’s bushfire disaster, social media analysis suggests.

    The bushfires burning across the nation have been accompanied by repeated suggestions of an arson epidemic or “arson emergency”.

    The false claims are, in some cases, used to undermine the link between the current bushfires and the longer, more intense fire seasons brought about by climate change.

    The Queensland University of Technology senior lecturer on social network analysis Dr Timothy Graham examined content published on the #arsonemergency hashtag on Twitter, assessing 1,340 tweets, 1,203 of which were unique, published by 315 accounts.

    Using a Twitter bot detection tool, he assessed a random sample for bot-like characteristics.


    His preliminary analysis found there is likely a “current disinformation campaign” on Twitter’s #arsonemergency hashtag due to the “suspiciously high number of bot-like and troll-like accounts”.

    He similarly found a large number of suspicious accounts posting on the #australiafire and #bushfireaustralia hashtags.

    “Australia suddenly appears to be getting swamped by mis/disinformation as a result of this environmental catastrophe, and we are suffering the consequences in terms of hyped up polarisation and an increased difficulty and inability for citizens to discern truth,” Graham told the Guardian.

    “Looking at the kinds of accounts that post using the #ArsonEmergency hashtag, you see that these are individuals who are hyper-partisan ideologues, behaving in a way that is not reflective of the average Twitter user.

    “The conspiracy theories going around (including arson as the main cause of the fires) reflect an increased distrust in scientific expertise, scepticism of the media, and rejection of liberal democratic authority. These are all major factors in the global fight against disinformation, and based on my preliminary analysis it appears that Australia has for better or worse entered that battlefield, at least for now.”

    There is no dispute that arson is a serious problem in Australia, or that arsonists have not been active in the current bushfire season. NSW police say they have charged 24 people with deliberately lighting bushfires this season.

    But that does not detract from the clear scientific evidence showing climate change is making Australia’s bushfire seasons longer and more severe. The Bureau of Meteorology’s clear advice is that climate change is “influencing the frequency and severity of dangerous bushfire conditions in Australia and other regions of the world, including through influencing temperature, environmental moisture, weather patterns and fuel conditions”.

    The BoM states that there is some evidence that “climate change could influence the risk of ignitions from dry-lightning.

    “Bushfire weather conditions in future years are projected to increase in severity for many regions of Australasia, including due to more extreme heat events, with the rate and magnitude of change increasing with greenhouse gas concentrations (and emissions),” the bureau says.

    Claims about arson are not the only falsehoods being spread on social media. Other patently false claims include that the government has created the bushfire crisis to clear land for high-speed rail. Another absurd claim is that Islamic State is somehow responsible.

    Several maps purporting to show the scale of the fires also vastly exaggerate their spread.



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    Bushfires: Firebugs fuelling crisis as arson arrest toll hits 183

    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...76d36ed1acf53f

    Police arrested 183 people for lighting bushfires across Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania in the past few months. NSW police data shows 183 people have been charged or cautioned for bushfire-related offences since November 8, and 24 arrested for deliberately starting bushfires.




    Can't they just blame the source, an Australian news agency?

    Now they have to try and bring trolls and Russian bots into the mix?
    Last edited by dannno; 01-07-2020 at 01:07 PM.
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    LOL. Was that this morning’s action alert?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    Better post some text. That link is behind a paywall.
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    Just like in those amazon fires last year.
    https://granitegrok.com/blog/2019/11...-amazon-forest
    World Wildlife Federation Paid $70,000 to Activists who Set Fire to Amazon Forest
    more at link...
    Last edited by specsaregood; 01-07-2020 at 01:14 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    Better post some text. That link is behind a paywall.
    Updated..

    The story has a bad title, but it clarifies it in the article.

    Zippy's story said they are spreading false information, but they are just spreading a headline from an Australian news agency.

    24 is still quite a bit for starting brush fires, and some of them may well be eco terrorists.

    Also, some of the 183 may also be guilty, but they don't have enough evidence. Who knows.
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    Humans starting some of the fires does not rule out climate change as a possible cause for the drought and heat and winds which created conditions for widespread fires.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Humans starting some of the fires does not rule out climate change as a possible cause for the drought and heat and winds which created conditions for widespread fires.
    It doesn’t rule out Pelosi’s evil flying monkeys as a possible cause either.
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    I always lean towards the evil flying monkeys.
    Do something Danke

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    wtf

    Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    “It’s climate change! Why don’t you believe science!” Screech a bunch of leftists that never took a college level science course.
    Spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.



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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    Spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.
    Are you telling me that Drama, Gender Studies, and other foundations of education are not science based?
    ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by RJB View Post
    Are you telling me that Drama, Gender Studies, and other foundations of education are not science based?
    Yes.

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