Jo Nova posted this map of the bushfire extent in Victoria during January, 1939
Compare with satellite imagery from January 4, 2019.
It appears that the burn area was much larger in 1939.
After the 1939 fires in Australia, there was a commission set up to study what happened and what could have been done differently.
- The fires were man-made
- There was a long drought followed by extreme heat
- Almost the entire state of Victoria appeared to be on fire on January 13
- It was dark as night at midday
- The amount of controlled burning was “ridiculously inadequate”
Two days earlier was the hottest day on record in Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide.
11 Jan 1939 – HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD IN THREE CAPITALS Seven Deaths: Many People Collapse – Trove
Koalas nearly went extinct.
19 Aug 1940 – KOALAS FACE EXTINCTION – Trove
Here is some more data for people to chew on… data that goes back before 1910, which is the popular start date for climate alarmists’ graphs, because if they included data from before that, it would not support their alarmist claims.
http://www.waclimate.net/extreme-temperatures.html
In the 2009 Victorian bushfires 300 people died. Some vehicles when burnt out had “puddles” of alloy from where their mag wheels had melted.
After the Royal Commission into those fires, a level of fuel load burn-offs was proscribed. In the last three years they managed less than a third of the recommended levels.
I think it was 173 people who died in 2009.
Of course the current Australian bush fires are terrible. However, we are being told over and over again by the media that these fires are unprecedented. That is just a blatant lie. Fires from as recently as 2002 burnt nearly twice as many hectares as the current fires. The bush fires in 1974-75 burnt 10 times more hectares
than the current fires. The media cannot be trusted to report the truth.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/Australia-bushfires-hectares-burned-by-year-scaled.jpg
https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/bushfire-new-south-wales-1974/?fbclid=IwAR0lSquEZ6_IOIn7i9nYj9i93ieilMsDt2tDl6MO_Zoj7VexTom-Jek0BPQ
Here’s another possible angle Tony:
https://tottnews.com/2019/12/05/australian-bushfires-conspiracy/
What do others think?