"Sadly, those warnings fell on deaf ears and, as the world watched on in horror, those same warnings became a harsh reality."
The ELCA report, which includes former emergency services commissioners from all over Australia, has accused the Federal Government of underestimating and ignoring "the rapidly escalating threat of climate change". "Consequently, our land management, fire and emergency services are under-resourced, disaster recovery is under-resourced and communities are underprepared for the worsening bushfire threat," the report said.Luke Wright takes a rest after putting out spot-fires at his brother's home in Oakdale, in Sydney's south-west, in December.It is calling for greater funding for firefighting and land management to ensure faster identification and dousing of new fires.
The group is also advocating for an Indigenous-led National Cultural Fire Strategy, and greater action to address the health effects of bushfires. Smoke from the recent bushfires resulted in more than 400 deaths and another 4000 people being treated in hospital, the ELCA said.Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
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How about all users of fossil fuels paying for it? What concerns me is that companies supplying fossil fuels haven't gone belly up.... implying that most of you are still using it.
ABC PSYchOPS.
Doctors are “experts” in medicine. That’s all.
wasn't what I was thinking when I was on the end of a fire hose this year.............
Let’s hope the other 164 recommendations are practical and have an impact to mitigate the risk of bushfires. Of course, ABC pull the usual Greg Mullins for his view - maybe an expert on fire management but I’m trying to figure how he’s an expert on climate change.
Emergency Leaders for Climate Action (ELCA) is a front for Tim Flannery’s Climate Council. They may (or may not) be experts in fire fighting, but their view on hitting fossil fuel companies is simply activism.
Is the ABC completely ignorant, or lying. Perhaps lying it's in their DNA.
Keep slinging’ the bull Aunty, but we ain’t buying it any more.
Yeah because bushfires have only happened in Australia recently and due to climate change....Absolute fucking liars
I think you will find that if fuel loads are reduced and people stopped committing arson it would prevent over 95% of large scale bushfires. Only the dumbass left think a tax is the answer to everything, even for problems that don’t exist. defundtheabc
So lack of clearing and arsonists have nothing to do with it. Got it 🤔
Greg_Mullins is a wannabe politician. Pushing the greens agenda to get his face in the news. Fuel load and strong winds and poor parks management n poor decision making on the ground was the result of the fires.
Our world could be 2°C by 2030s,3°C by mid-century, 4°C by 2075,temperatures rocketing us to terrifying heat, floods, drought,hunger unlike anything we've ever have to go back aeons ,before our species emerged for anything comparable. we must take note
Bluey says the actual cause is as bald as dog's balls. I'll take Bluey's real-world, century and half of lived experience, over all the experts in Canberra, any-day, always. FireChange
Nothing but ClimateFreak excrement polluting the Earth with toxic (Hard core climate porn)^∞! All predictions by scientifically illiterate fools have been proven wrong, yet they keep making asses of themselves by inventing ever more lunatic predictions, and MSM idiots spread it
Blah blah blah Record Rain this year in Virustoria ! Fossil fuel, jeez how does that make bushfires ? Could it be Greens stopping fire lines being cleared ? Farmers clearing their bushy land ? Blocking forest cut backs? Just accept the blame for once Greens !
Rubbish
So called experts will say anything you want if you pay them enough money, shame on you ABC.
What a load of rubbish.
Activists, not experts. defundtheabc
About time was a subscription only service. Regional viewers can receive a rebate but metro viewers to pay per view.
Green policies promoted by the contribute to more bushfires. Make them reimburse victims.
Stop harping on & on!
Nothing to do with fuel and it sitting there waiting to burn.
Experts my arse
Making stuff up
Typical liberal media bs
X being an unknown quantity and a spurt being a drip under pressure,
Have you tried not lying? May be have a one day trial? You might surprise yourselves.
So many memes so little time. The ABC really reqires hundreds of them.
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Seriously didn't RFS already rape fire victims of their fire donations & now want more ! 🤔
Lack of fuel reduction burns for years did not help. Until this issue is addressed out of control bushfires will continue regardless of any change in climate
What experts, the fucking greens?
Where is the evidence Fake News
It seems Covid is affecting the brains of some.
Wrong! Arsonists, an horrendous drought and hazard reduction policy (blocked by The Greens) caused last summers bushfires...
You forgot Covid
Don’t arsonists cause fires too? How about the fuel load on forest floors not being reduced because greenies don’t like smoke blowing in their latte? Or the growth in national parks declared by bob carr, who didn’t provide the money to maintain a lower fuel load? bushfire
Arson is, not climate change
Ustralia subsidies (giving handouts) in excess of $26 billion a year to the fossil fuel industry (Carbon Majors Report). So taxpayers (i.e. not multibilionaires) contribute $to the business of fossil fuel that is returned to us to pay for the harm they cause?
We're busy archiving this stuff to destroy you with later
As a country we couldn’t even get funds raised to help with the cost of bushfires due to legal barriers so who says anyone can even be trusted with other people’s money with this cause.
Please save us ClimateJesus
Experts say arsonists lit more fires than fossil fuel industry.
Total f...g bullshit. Climate change has minimal impact on bush fires. It may limit tbe available window for control burns. And in this case give an out to negligent bureaucrats. Manage ur forestry resources effectively, ignore NIMBYS and accurately time management activities
Experts say? What experts? Tim Flannery? Can't you be responsible in your claims just as a reward for us taxpayers?
What about the arsonemergency ?
‘Experts’
Yet the elites live on the waterfront. Yeah spin us some more garbage you want the working class to pay for. Seriously shut up.
Tell the experts they are no longer considered experts by the public. Problem solved.
Rubbish again. So why is this not happening in heaps of other countries?
Rubbish
Experts 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You know the underbrush clearing aids in fire fighting efforts. Too bad Obama cut the funding for this work & the created lots of California’s problems.
Climate change doesn't necessarily start wildfires but it sure helps intensifies them or make them more likely. It's amazing that to some people raising global temperature doesn't have any effect on wildfires. Just common sense really.
When asked what EXACTLY is climate change doing to cause such brush fires, the alarmists go blank. There is some BS about how all LIVING biomass is 'drier' now because of a slight change in average temps. As if a plant's moisture content evaporates at 1/2 degree temp change.
Bullshit
No, I’m pretty sure it’s fire.
fucking bullshit
Why does everyone need to place blame? Every little thing is blame. The natural progression of the Earth Cycle is never entertained but why? Because of blame. To fix a person to punish? It’s nuts to think any one thing is the cause. The Earth does it every few thousand years.
Yes ABC. Lets get crackin on more gas and..... Wait for it.......more compensation. Time for CovidCtee gas guys to take a hike. They are as welcome to the community as a cold sore on your wedding day........
You need to get real experts on climate. I can hook you up..
This story is more full of dung than a pod of constipated Blue Whale..
ABC, of these RWNJ climate change denier opinions in the comments is partially your fault. You know, putting climate change deniers on QandA for the past 5 years.
cockwobble
Is it only that fails to see the conflict between 'experts' and 'action group'? If only would do their job instead of pushing an ideological barrow. auspol.
It was caused by drought and excess fuel loads saying climate change lets all goverments off the hook!
Bullshit, bullshit and more ABC Bullshit
ABC Leftard experts, not real experts !
TheConsumer Guilt by association?
What caused the previous 10,000,000 years of bushfire?
You don't report that the management boards were stacked with environmental activists. Due to their inaction on fuel reduction is what caused the catastrophe. NOT Climate change
Take it out of the Greens, after all, their policies added fuel to the fire.
Put down the wine & go to bed.
WHAT A CROCK! Just who are these experts & who's paying them?
Experts.....lol. Solid proof is yet to be seen or proven. Green gay rainbow warriors are persistent but.
And when will you air this?
Also you have a paid shill and troll problem.
you are really flogging a dead horse with this global climate emergency shite
Which experts? The same ones that modelled million dying from the China Virus? Or the ones that predicted no ice caps by now? stfuABC you deceptive clowns.
Good luck with that in Australia. I mean we have an unelected body of fossil fuel execs currently in charge of making decisions on the future direction of this country. Their decisions are kept secret too. Tells you everything you need to know + Australia keeps voting for this.
The fact that our dams are empty is proof that experts are always right. Oh, wait...
Yeah, nah. How does the expert explain the fact the bush fires are part of nature?
Total Bullshit
Defund yourselves
150 experts, all left leaning I bet.
'Experts'
More 'experts'? DEFUND THE ABC.
Nothing to do with arson and poor management of back burning then?
Have you heard of the fire triangle
skritto9 They and you are already paying when you buy electricity and lifestyle.
You mean Green activists & yourabc journalists I think!
Experts? Greens maybe, what about rainfall this year well above average, and cold too
Keeping fuel loads to a minimum and jail arsonists for a minimum of 10 years and there’ll be very few.
Locking up National parks and State forests without conducting subscribed burn off’s during cooler months has consequences... Who knew 🙄
Lazy Journalism.
ClimateJesus will save us!
You misspelled 'Activists'😬
Stopped reading at the obligatory inclusion of Greg Mullins 🦃 as one of the 'experts'😱 The facts - the main driver of our weather is ocean currents, ENSO, la nina, el nino, SAM, and Indian Ocean dipole.
Ah right - here comes the 'experts' spewing ridiculous conspiracy theories with no evidence. Sad that ABC gives these nutters a platform.
What about the ridiculous overgrowth I the bush, the lack bush management, banning forestry in Victoria. People not allowed to protect their property. Whatever we do in Australia has no impact on Climate change. Our emissions are too low.
Your bias is showing, - where are the experts in the article?
What a complete load of crap. Historical fires have been worse and last years fires are the result of IOD, no hazard reduction and arson... I’m sick of you bedwetters
What a load of crap
Rubbish!
So is lightning and arson.
Love these so called ‘experts’ in the comments, you’d believe they’re fully educated on the matter wouldn’t you
LNP would not dare FOSSIL FUEL miners They r the holy grails Santos lost millions on gas assets writeoffs Now they are asking to frack Narrabri using Jobkeeper As renewable power is cheaper GAS wells would be a dud stranded assets
“Experts” lol.
Where is the evidence - FAKE NEWS
Absolute bias. How can the Government continue to fund their enemy.
Stupidity. Already the pandemic has us confined like no carbon tax could ever do. The economy has tanked, businesses broke, jobs lost and these climate theorists have everything they ever wanted. We need stimulus. So if it's fuel, don't tax it, subsidise it.
Completely baseless assertion ABCFactCheck
Rubbish , what caused the demise of the many ice ages the Earth has endured long before human habitation.
Climate Change Bullshit.
ABC now bored with “anti racism” reverting to “climate change” as it’s repetitive narrative. Sooo last season defundtheabc
Only would insist with this claptrap with millions unemployed, deflation and depression. The disconnect between the activists running and the real Australians couldn’t be starker.
Our future generations depend on it.
Their ABC
ABCnews, please do a bit of fact checking before jumping to conclusions....
More apparent experts 🙄
Here we go 'experts'.
Bias left wing ABC should be drastically cut of its funding. EXPERTS SAY.
The term “expert” is used loosely when it come to climate change.
Here goes the ABC again. Talk about it mob. Left right out. Gone. Again. Straight to the bottom.
Rubbish. Read Michael Shellenberger’s book ‘Apocalypse Never’
Ahh no . No evidence of that
What complete and utter ABC bullshit
What or who did our ancestors blame changing weather patterns and climate change on?
What a load of garbage. How many of these 'experts' are climate scientists? I world looove for these people to have to prove any of this crap in a court of law.
Isn't it kind of insane just continuing burning fossil fuels (which cause the disasters) and taxing them to help clean up the mess. Call me radical but how about not polluting & destroying the environment in the first place? Crazy right...
Experts in the ABC lunch room
Bullshit ...bushfires along with floods have been going on here for 1,000 of years. This fire was severe due to drought and in particular is due to allowing National Parks to be untouched and reduced back burning has increased fuel to burn. These experts you say are activists.
karenricks Blessed be ❤
Yet the only “expert’ quoted is a former fireman. The experts below however found arson, fuel loads & lack of back burning as the cause of the fires which killed 173 ppl in 2009. If the ABC is really stuck for cash, it should charge for the free advertising for the alarmists....
Yes there is climate change - Summer Autumn Winter Spring
So lies then.
also an assume. bushfire caused the fleet of bats. and then ...
Why aren't there bushfires in winter then?
Typical lefties let’s just blame it on something and tax them. Fossil fuels have done more good for civilisation than bad. does climate change yes. fires happen because of many factors, it’s expected when Australia is hottest and driest country on earth
Yes fossil fuel money that will stop bushfires.
More experts like Norman Swan. A preemptive Green strike before the royal commission!
What a Load of Crap!!
Totally wrong this is 100% bullshit ABC, playing to the choir as usual.
arabella6667 Burning wood also promotes changes to an environment that create fire risks. So, a simple solution to areas prone to fires is to stop burning wood.
MichaelEMann Pandemic Porn not getting the clicks any more?
So it had nothing to with agenda driven Greens Arsonists ? “Experts say”
MichaelEMann No doubt about it....
simonahac Obviously hasn’t read ShellenbergerMD report
Meanwhile, gas is the way ahead, apparently. Hmmm
It’s always someone has to pay isn’t it ? Why should taxpayers fork out $1 billion for this rubbish ? Just like every other media organisation it’s time you stood on your own two feet. Time to stop being a play toy & mouthpiece of the left. defundtheABC
Which deplorable expert is that? ABC expert? 😁😁😁 Global warming HOAX!
No it's NOT the NT doesn't have this problem because it manages it's bush properly. Lit a burn, 32 deg 27RH 1.30pm next to houses! Southern states cant manage it because of green tape
Bollocks
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As everyone knows,before the human beings existed,there’s no bushfires on earth 🤣
Maybe we should go back to a real democracy where the people run the country, not unelected experts who can seemingly justify any policy, The Government then presents policy as if we have no choice. This is a serious subversion of democracy and is now the status quo.
Carbon tax paid by the punters, creative workaround. Aus 100% RE tomorrow will have no impact on bushfires & we’re back to not addressing bushfire management.
No shit Sherlock!
Forest fuel is a more relevant issue.
Ye we know how it goes ABC, the world is coming to an end, we need to stop burning coal, we need to save the whales and men should be encouraged to wear dresses and if men don't they are misogynist. F**k off; defund the ABC.
Defund the ABC nowwwww!!!!!
bollocks
Good god - you call this journalism. Go home and tick up in bed
More bullshit. DefundTheABC
More ABC fake news and bs!!!!
Its time to ditch Paris 4.0 now!!!! it is all total bullshit and a total sham.!! All firefighters have been given a a solar windmill to put in their back yards!!!
Strange how cash is the answer! 0.33% of the world's population placing a levy on fossil fuels! ChangesNothing
BS ! klimatelies