Alan Jones: Bureaucrats and politicians to blame for fires not climate change

Source: The Daily Telegraph, via Volunteer Fire Fighters Association, written by Alan Jones

The ABC were at it again last week, fawning over 23 former fire and emergency leaders who commented, outside their area of expertise, about an alleged relationship between bushfires and climate change.

It is worth asking how the non-expert views of such people are even newsworthy.

But the propaganda in relation to climate change, from the classroom to the university to politicians and to most of the media, has to give cause for concern.

As The Australian newspaper editorialised at the weekend, “It is time for a dose of icy water. Climate change did not cause the fires.

Drought and even deadlier blazes have been part of Australian life for more than a century … even if Australians eliminated all of the nation’s greenhouse gases, about 1.3 per cent of the global total, and pandered to extremists who want meat consumption, grazing and flying reduced markedly, nothing, virtually nothing, would be achieved …”

Well, let’s deal first with the “deadlier” blazes.

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