Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/31/footage-of-australian-fire-cre.html
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Anybody know if Australia is banning fireworks for New Years celebrations?
Seems like a great idea.
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No.
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Overwhelmed or overrun? They seemed to handle the overrun rather professionally
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“ Australia’s government appears unmoved. Here’s the Prime Minister, talking earlier in wildfire season, about why there would be no change in policy toward carbon emissions: “What we won’t do is engage in reckless and job-destroying and economy-crunching targets which are being sought."
Australian Government energy website:
“ The Australian continent has the highest solar radiation per square metre of any continent and consequently some of the best solar energy resource in the world. The regions with the highest solar radiation are the desert regions in the northwest and centre of the continent.
Australia’s energy resources, including solar energy resources, and the factors impacting on the development and adoption of the various energy resources to 2030 are outlined in the Australian Energy Resource Assessment.
Australia receives an average of 58 million PJ of solar radiation per year, approximately 10 000 times larger than its total energy consumption. However, Australia’s current use of solar energy is low with solar energy accounting for only about 0.1 per cent of Australia’s total primary energy consumption.”
“ Australia has some of the best wind resources in the world. Australia’s wind energy resources are located mainly in the southern parts of the continent (which lie in the path of the westerly wind flow known as the ‘roaring 40s’) and reach a maximum around Bass Strait”
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“What we won’t do is engage in reckless and job-destroying and economy-crunching targets which are being sought."
Yeah, it’s not like out-of-control hellfires will ever destroy jobs or put a strain on the economy.
Welcome to the new normal, brought to you by dogmatic neoliberalism.
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When you click on the first video, it says the content has been blocked by Mako on copyright grounds.
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My search for Mako in Australia comes up with a mining company, which, in light of ScoMo’s video content at the bottom of the article, would be fucking gross, yet somehow entirely predictable these days.
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Well, actually…it’s great for the GDP as the government will need to spend billions on rebuilding people’s homes and cities. You couldn’t ask for better economic stimulus!
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And a whole lot more after those fires are done doing what they do.
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Still had them all over Melbourne. The YMML tower cancelled their standard departure so that airliners could position themselves for a better look on their way out.
Oh and edit:
Its going to be interesting to see what happens on the climate change front now. Up to about a month ago, the electorate was solidly against climate change measures. Our politicians responded with appropriate policies. Now we have this disaster, and a lot of people seem to have changed their mind on the subject, leaving our pollies wondering what the hell happened.
The question is, will it rebound? I suppose we will know in six months or so.
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That’s quite a truck.
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To quote one of the daft right-wing grannies I met last week: “I don’t know that climate change is real, but things are certainly changing…”.
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Morrison might do something if the fires threaten to burn the coal.
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The PM stated in his new year message that “there’s no better place to raise kids” than Australia. Australian kids are currently breathing bush fire smoke equivalent of a pack a day of cigarettes. The extreme summer conditions we’re experiencing today will be the mild summer conditions when those children have grown up.
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Most places still had them if there wasn’t a risk of high fire danger. There was a push from some quarters to cancel and give the money to people affected by the fires, but NYE celebrations are paid for months in advance, so it would’ve been tokenistic at best.
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On the theme of fireworks: a repeated cause of major bushfires near Sydney over the last few decades has been “the Army got careless during artillery training”.
E.g.:
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