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Police contradict claims spread online exaggerating arson's role in Australian bushfires [see reply 26]
The Guardian ^ | 01/08/2020 | Chrisopher Knauss

Posted on 01/08/2020 1:03:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Unassuaged

Only if you accept the veracity of the Victoria police.


21 posted on 01/08/2020 3:10:46 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: SeekAndFind

Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, have dominion over it.

As the Polish Archbishop says, environmental problems are solved by having dominion over the earth. Worshipping dry brush as equal to God and not sending that brush to the particle board factory is the cause of the Australian fires.


22 posted on 01/08/2020 3:14:14 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: chris37
Meanwhile, the evidence that the fires were started by “Climate Change” is incontrovertible.

Even if people started brushfires, would those fires have spread so much if Australia were not suffering from drought and record-breaking temperatures?

23 posted on 01/08/2020 4:10:21 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: ADemocratNoMore
If the fires were all started by lightning, doesn’t one have to assume rainstorms along with it, and, as far as I know that also means a lot of water as well. I must be missing something here.

I've seen reports from Australia that say they have been having "dry lightning."

24 posted on 01/08/2020 4:14:06 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Fires do burn hotter in the Summer, don’t they.


25 posted on 01/08/2020 4:50:32 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: chris37

it was the New South Wales Police (NSW is largest State in Australia) who put out the statement re 183 people - for the period 9 November 2019 to date of their media releae below:

6 January 2019: New South Wales Police, Australia: Police take legal action against more than 180 people so far during 2019/2020 bushfire season
The NSW Police Force has taken legal action against more than 180 people for bushfire-related offences since late last year.
Numerous bush and grass fires have impacted the state, claiming the lives of 18 people and destroying hundreds of millions of animals and livestock, thousands of homes, and more than 4.9 million hectares of land, so far this bushfire season.

Since Friday 8 November 2019, legal action – which ranges from cautions through to criminal charges – has been taken against 183 people – including 40 juveniles – for 205 bushfire-related offences...
https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news_article?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGZWJpenByZC5wb2xpY2UubnN3Lmdvdi5hdSUyRm1lZGlhJTJGODIyNjQuaHRtbCZhbGw9MQ%3D%3D

everything in The Guardian is FakeNews.


26 posted on 01/08/2020 6:10:49 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: ADemocratNoMore

You only read the first paragraph. They also attributed the fires to arson.


27 posted on 01/08/2020 8:14:21 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: ADemocratNoMore
If the fires were all started by lightning, doesn’t one have to assume rainstorms along with it, and, as far as I know that also means a lot of water as well. I must be missing something here.

I've seen lightning without a subsequent rain storm.

And then there is this....

Dry lightning is lightning that occurs without rain nearby. The NOAA Storm Prediction Center routinely forecasts dry lightning because this kind is more likely to cause forest fires. ... These lightning flashes have been documented to travel more than 25 miles away from the thunderstorm cloud.

Good question you had actually. Very interesting finding the answer. Good question.

28 posted on 01/08/2020 8:16:36 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Roccus
Seems like neither side’s media is interested in the unvarnished truth.

A bit sickening, isn't it.

29 posted on 01/08/2020 8:17:29 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: MAGAthon
"Guardian is FakeNews"
With your link to offical web site to prove Guardian is FakeNews.
Thank you
30 posted on 01/09/2020 12:06:51 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: gunsequalfreedom; Roccus

Check again the Guardian is fake news not Epoch Times


31 posted on 01/09/2020 12:08:17 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
As it sez, see #26

32 posted on 01/10/2020 11:24:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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