{"id":119,"date":"2009-02-10T00:03:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-02-10T00:03:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:03:34","slug":"australias-bushfire-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Australia's Bushfire Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several years ago, when Australia was baking from an extended drought and its agricultural economy was near collapse<\/a>, Australians partly blamed global warming and soon booted their conservative Prime Minister (who advised everyone to pray for rain) out of office.<\/p>\n

https://prsaboston.org/6200-2/ Now, in the wake of southern Australia’s\u00a0 catastrophic fires,<\/a> which has leveled whole villages and killed up to 200 people,\u00a0 climate change is again being cast<\/a> as one of the culprits.<\/p>\n

That’s too crude, similar to when some American environmentalists immediately blamed<\/a> global warming for Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n

For starters, Australia’s landscape is pretty damn flammable<\/a>. Tragic wildfires have struck the country many times before<\/a>. And, as The Australian <\/a><\/em>points out<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Valium 10Mg Buy Online The severity of bushfires is determined by a number of key factors: weather, including drought; fuel load; topography; the location of the population: their houses: and householders’ preparedness to manage fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In this latest case, what’s even more awful to consider is that authorities issued<\/a> dire warnings to the public on the eve of the disaster. And still, many of the victims had no inkling that fire was upon them until the last minute.<\/p>\n

Ambien No Prescription As for the future, will hotter temperatures from greenhouse gases\u00a0 lead to longer and more frequent dry spells in Australia? Most likely, say scientists.\u00a0 And this, of course, will beget more nasty bushfires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https://drreddyfamilydoctors.com/thyroid-disorders/ Several years ago, when Australia was baking from an extended drought and its agricultural economy was near collapse, Australians partly blamed global warming and soon booted their conservative Prime Minister (who advised everyone to pray for rain) out of office. Now, in the wake of southern Australia’s\u00a0 catastrophic fires, which has leveled whole villages and… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2481,2516,2553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-bushfires","category-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}