Bill GreenFIRE HELL FAULT OF GOVERNMENTS AND BUREAUCRATS
February 12th 2009 07:20
The hell of the Victorian bush fires was the fault of Australian governments, individual politicians, their hangers-on and the bureaucrats. Right at this moment they are trying to shaft the green groups for fighting the destruction of undergrowth habitat and wanting trees growing close to houses. It's called spin.
For ten years we have known about global warming and those in authority have ignored the reality and have done nothing to prevent it. Name one initiative that has been undertaken. Okay so we'll have the greens wear it. The green grouyps have believed that governments were doing something for the environment and stepped out to conserve what we have.
It may have been bad policy in the short term because they believed the governments with their platitudes about Australians staying to fight for their homes - and advising, even in television ads, how to do it - were ahead of the fire-fighting game. Never has that been further from the truth.
Weather bureau bureaucrats were advising only last year that there were two sides to the global warming concept. Sorry guys, and the 6% humidity that you reported on saturday was way below any other low humidity figure. Former ship's captain, Gerry Seymour, has advised that 20% was considered outrageously low. So now you are not commenting or expanding on the 6% humidity figure because it must be getting close to a humidity figure that creates spontaneous combustion.
That's scary.
MY FIRE EXPERIENCE COMES FROM FIGHTING TWO IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT AND COVERING THE LARA FIRES. In the Lara fires myself and an ABCTV crew wanted fire for all we seemed to be getting was smoke. As the Melbourne Geelong road was closed we backed down through the smoke with the cameraman on the tailgate.
A gusting wind lifted the smoke and there was the flame thirty feet high and crossing the road in the style of a water race. That was the first time I had seen flame that frightened me. That fire took out two families who ran from their cars. I knew then that the fires of the future were going to be different.
For ten years we have known about global warming and those in authority have ignored the reality and have done nothing to prevent it. Name one initiative that has been undertaken. Okay so we'll have the greens wear it. The green grouyps have believed that governments were doing something for the environment and stepped out to conserve what we have.
It may have been bad policy in the short term because they believed the governments with their platitudes about Australians staying to fight for their homes - and advising, even in television ads, how to do it - were ahead of the fire-fighting game. Never has that been further from the truth.
Weather bureau bureaucrats were advising only last year that there were two sides to the global warming concept. Sorry guys, and the 6% humidity that you reported on saturday was way below any other low humidity figure. Former ship's captain, Gerry Seymour, has advised that 20% was considered outrageously low. So now you are not commenting or expanding on the 6% humidity figure because it must be getting close to a humidity figure that creates spontaneous combustion.
That's scary.
MY FIRE EXPERIENCE COMES FROM FIGHTING TWO IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT AND COVERING THE LARA FIRES. In the Lara fires myself and an ABCTV crew wanted fire for all we seemed to be getting was smoke. As the Melbourne Geelong road was closed we backed down through the smoke with the cameraman on the tailgate.
A gusting wind lifted the smoke and there was the flame thirty feet high and crossing the road in the style of a water race. That was the first time I had seen flame that frightened me. That fire took out two families who ran from their cars. I knew then that the fires of the future were going to be different.
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