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7 December 2021, The Conversation: We are professional fire watchers, and we’re astounded by the scale of fires in remote Australia right now. While southern Australia experienced a wet winter and a soggy spring, northern Australia has seen the opposite. Extreme … Continue reading →

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25 January 2021, Renew Economy, One year after “Black Summer” bushfire crisis, media misinformation still burns. During Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis, misinformation raged alongside the flames. Large media outlets pushed the line that the sheer intensity of the crisis could be explained by a sudden surge in arson attacks, using an inflated number that simply kept growing in size. This falsehood was presented as a counter to the widespread assumption that climate change had played a major role in making that bushfire season so wildly catastrophic and unusual. That misinformation was eventually firmly debunked. About 0.09% of the fires in New South Wales were found to be deliberately lit, and all of these were minor spot fires, found the NSW Royal Commission report, and the federal equivalent firmly pins climate change as a major cause. Much of the initial misinformation was driven by 7 News Australia, first with a post claiming the following: Read more here

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12 June 2020, The Conversation. It’s 12 months since the last bushfire season began, but don’t expect the same this year. Last season’s bushfires directly killed 34 people and devastated more than 8 million hectares of land along the south-eastern fringe of … Continue reading →

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10 June 2020 The Conversation, It’s 12 months since the last bushfire season began, but don’t expect the same this year. Last season’s bushfires directly killed 34 people and devastated more than 8 million hectares of land along the south-eastern fringe of Australia. A further 445 people are estimated to have died from smoke-induced respiratory problems. The burned landscape may take decades to recover, if it recovers at all. While it’s become known colloquially as the Black Summer, last year’s fire season actually began in winter in parts of Queensland. The first fires were in June. So will the 2020 fire season kick off this month? And is last summer’s inferno what we should expect as a normal fire season? The answer to both questions is no. Let’s look at why. Last fire season First, let’s recap what led to last year’s early start to the fire season, and why the bushfires became so intense and extensive. The fires were so severe because they incorporated five energy sources. The most obvious is fuel: live and dead plant material. The other sources bushfires get their energy from include the terrain, weather, atmospheric instability and a lack of moisture in the environment such as in soil, timber in houses and large woody debris. Read more here

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