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Bushfires

 

'High on coal': How overseas media has reported on the  Australian bushfire crisis 

People around the globe got the message. The planet is getting hotter: just look at the pictures from Australia.

Along with a news report on the fires, Ouest-France published a stinging analysis titled "High on coal, rich Australia denies global warming". 

"It was 2006. The researcher Christian Downie presented evidence of links between the rise in carbon emissions and global warming in a study published by The Australian Institute. Thirteen years later, a party in Australia, one of the richest countries in the world, continues to deny this scientific fact," Christelle Guibert wrote in her introduction to the piece which was adorned with a photo of Prime Minister Scott Morrison. It quoted an expert saying the denial was "incomprehensible".

 It turns out Morrison 'doing nothing' on climate was the best-case scenario | The Canberra Times

 As it turns out, the Morrison government "doing nothing" on climate change was a best-case scenario. Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, the Morrison government is there to pour fossil fuel on the bushfires.

 here we are with a federal government that won't address or talk meaningfully about one of the major contributors to this unprecedented bushfire season, and that's using taxpayers' money to invest in power stations that will make the problem worse. The Morrison government's continued stubbornness on climate change is the gift that will keep taking from the nation each holiday season.

 

Bushfires

Desperate animals abandon young in fight to survive

Vast bushfires and the extended drought are causing a 'starvation event' that is forcing wildlife to abandon their young.
More than 300 baby flying foxes have been abandoned in a "starvation event" on NSW's South Coast as their desperate mothers leave them behind in order to survive.
The devastating drought and fires have hit wildlife habitats so hard experts believe human intervention will be needed to repopulate sensitive species that will otherwise be wiped out locally.