Australian heat waves & bushfires

[Yossarian]

What is the political response abroad? Has anyone offered anything?

Just don't understand the paltry international response to such a disaster.

Even just good will messages. Or a fucking honest conversation.

Some Pacific nations are sending aid - Vanuatu is sending money and Papua New Guinea has offered 1,000 personnel.

Why the Pacific nations' aid pledge to Australia is 'not surprising'

Pacific countries — many which face an existential threat due to climate change and rising sea levels — have pledged aid and offered support to Australia as devastating bushfires continue to rage across the country.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Louie Gabia]

What is the political response abroad? Has anyone offered anything?

Just don't understand the paltry international response to such a disaster.

Even just good will messages. Or a fucking honest conversation.

We've sent good will to our wider Firefighter family in Australia.
The U.K fire and rescue services are simply not equipped or trained to deal with fires like we are seeing in Australia.
Our services have been stripped bare by austerity and government cunts to the point where any personnel we could send would be of a token second line nature and will leave our stations short of personnel.
The teams that have been sent from Canada and shortly the U.S. will be drawn from their dedicated forest detachments. Experienced personnel who we all hope will make the difference that we wish we could make.

Regards Louie

 

[belboid]

It’s way better than responses to other environmental disasters in poorer countries.

Well, yeah. Compare the coverage of these fires with the flooding in Indonesia. 50 odd dead, 400,000 displaced, but barely a word. They’re talking about completely moving Jakarta - to the last surviving habitat of orangutans.

 

[belboid]

Two pics from the far north of NZ, 24 hours apart. Small blessing some rain fell, but it’s still obviously a long way from over.

 

[cupid_stunt]

NB - This is not a photo, nor are all these fires still active, it's a graphic created using a compilation of a month's worth of data from NASA, and is a little exaggerated due to the render’s glow, but gives a fairly good idea of the scale of the fires over the month.

This virtual image of the Australian bushfires was created using NASA data -- it's not a satellite photo

An image has been shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, alongside a claim that it is a photograph of the bushfires in Australia taken from space by a NASA satellite. The photo has been circulated in a misleading context; a Brisbane-based photographer...

factcheck.afp.com

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Looks like cooling lava.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Looks like cooling lava.

It certainly does in this photo.

Australian hillside on fire 'looks like it's covered in lava'

The shocking photograph was taken yesterday.

metro.co.uk

 

[Cid]

Is it not coming up to autumn in Australia? Maybe things will cool down.

No. From wiki jan and feb in both Sydney and Melbourne are roughly the same. March a little cooler... less hot... than dec.

e2a: scuse redundant answer, blaming new board format.

 

[ice-is-forming]

Damn, I've woken up this morning and the smell of smoke is strong ah, just checked and it's from K'gari.

 

[ice-is-forming]

This popped up on my fb Fred from nine years ago..my then 12 year old daughter was stuck on the other side of the river alone/with strangers for two weeks before the ses could bring her back safely by boat!

 

[r0bb0]

Here's an article about fighting fire with fire from 2014, response to the fire's has to be upgraded!
Sound crazy? How to fight wildfires with explosives

 

[r0bb0]

What is the political response abroad? Has anyone offered anything?

Just don't understand the paltry international response to such a disaster.

Even just good will messages. Or a fucking honest conversation.

There more interested In the middle east.

 

[Humberto]

There more interested In the middle east.

'Shoulder to shoulder', inevitably.

 

[r0bb0]

'Shoulder to shoulder', inevitably.

Geopolotik V Climatechange (we have a contender)!

 

[editor]

Fuck the moronic conspiracy loons insisting that all this is happening on purpose so they can build a fucking railway. I had to unfriend some idiot on FB once a few on his nutcase chums joined in ("but look! the line of fires follow the proposed route!")

 

[spring-peeper]

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[2hats]

Smoke is back in Sydney again. Airport this morning:

There should be a city skyline somewhere over there.

 

[ice-is-forming]

Fuck the moronic conspiracy loons insisting that all this is happening on purpose so they can build a fucking railway. I had to unfriend some idiot on FB once a few on his nutcase chums joined in ("but look! the line of fires follow the proposed route!")

Not sure whether to or !

There has been a massive amount of misinformation, and bot stuff on twitter apparently ( I stay away from Twitter but there's been a fair amount of investigative journalism on it this week)

Thing is it's bad enough without having to make shit up..

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Not sure whether to or !

There has been a massive amount of misinformation, and bot stuff on twitter apparently ( I stay away from Twitter but there's been a fair amount of investigative journalism on it this week)

Thing is it's bad enough without having to make shit up..

It's madness isn't it? I mean just why?? Do they want to deny any link to climate change so much that they have to make shit up? Or is it just that these people are compelled to make shit up all the time?

 

[ice-is-forming]

It's madness isn't it? I mean just why?? Do they want to deny any link to climate change so much that they have to make shit up? Or is it just that these people are compelled to make shit up all the time?

Manter has actually posted the offending FB post somewhere, I'll tag you. I just can't...

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Manter has actually posted the offending FB post somewhere, I'll tag you. I just can't...

Just seen it.....fucking hell

 

[spring-peeper]

Canadian Firefighters In Australia Were Applauded For Coming To Help With The Fires

With so much of Australia being ravaged by fires, Canada is trying to do its part to help battle the flames and stop them from spreading. People there were quick to show their appreciation for the efforts Canada is making to help their country out. Canadian firefighters in Australia were greeted...

www.narcity.com

It took almost 16 hours for the visiting fire specialists to get to Australia, but that long and exhausting flight was probably worth it, considering the warm welcome they received at the airport.

Joining Canadian volunteers already on the ground there, these specialists were greeted with applause and cheers from Australians at the airport after they got off their plane in Sydney.

The claps, whistles and cheers welcoming them to the country show that people are pretty grateful for workers from this country stepping up to the plate and helping.

 

[cupid_stunt]

They expects the fires in the south to get worst again over the next few days.

The Australian state of Victoria has again declared a state of disaster ahead of forecast "dangerous, dynamic" conditions in a massive bushfire zone.

Despite a national bushfire crisis raging since September, the south-eastern state is only entering what is considered to be its worst fire months.

Blazes have already burnt 1.2 million hectares in Victoria and claimed three lives. Nationally, 26 people have died.

The danger is predicted to be greatest on Friday due to hot, volatile weather.

"I know we have not seen this much fire activity this early in the season," state Premier Daniel Andrews said on Thursday.

"But I also make the point: I don't think we've seen as co-ordinated, as effective a response to that unprecedented fire activity as we have seen in these last few weeks."

There are also warnings for South Australia and New South Wales (NSW), where fires continue to endanger lives and homes.

Australia fires: Victoria extends 'state of disaster' as threat intensifies

Victoria again declares a state of disaster as a massive fire zone is threatened by volatile weather.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Fez909]

Some of the videos coming out of this are incredible and utterly terrifying

 

[cupid_stunt]

Meanwhile the Murdoch media is in full-on climate denying mode.

“Don’t take photos of any trees coming down,” he said. “The greenies will get a hold of it, and it’ll all be over.”

The idea that “greenies” or environmentalists would oppose measures to prevent fires from ravaging homes and lives is simply false. But the comment reflects a narrative that’s been promoted for months by conservative Australian media outlets, especially the influential newspapers and television stations owned by Rupert Murdoch.

And it’s far from the only Murdoch-fueled claim making the rounds. His standard-bearing national newspaper, The Australian, has also repeatedly argued that this year’s fires are no worse than those of the past — not true, scientists say, noting that 12 million acres have burned so far, with 2019 alone scorching more of New South Wales than the previous 15 years combined.

BIB - fucking hell.

How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate (Published 2020)

Critics see a concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change.

www.nytimes.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

Some of the videos coming out of this are incredible and utterly terrifying

Blimey, they were bloody lucky.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The dreaded situation of two massive fires merging has happened.

A pair of massive bushfires in southeastern Australia has merged into a "mega-fire" engulfing some 2,300 square miles – a single blaze more than three times as large as any known fire in California.

The merged fire, which straddles the country's most populous states of New South Wales and Victoria, measures nearly 1.5 million acres, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. It is just one of some 135 bushfires in Australia's southeast that have claimed the lives of at least 26 people, killed more than a billion animals and damaged or destroyed nearly 3,000 homes.

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[cupid_stunt]

Just looked-up a comparison for that figure of 2,300 square miles, Greater London is 606 square miles, so it's almost 4 times that!

 

[weltweit]

Some of the videos coming out of this are incredible and utterly terrifying

It doesn't surprise me they stayed with their property, Australian farmers are tough people. I do wonder what farmers with livestock are doing?

 

[weltweit]