And whats all this business about the smoke ?

I asked George about all the smoke haze
George You can’t have it both ways.The scaremongers are so desperate to prove their point about the world getting warmer that they clearly can’t see the bushfires through the smoke and mirrors of their own climate change campaign,

This latest attempt to prove to the public that the place is warming up will prove only that these people are desperate enough to ignore even basic truths. The truths of really serious and very dangerous catastrophic fires in our history.

Those of us who still think about fires know that smoke and haze are products of incomplete combustion and high humidity .Its not enough to just have high air temperatures ; you have to have the right speed and water content in the wind and the fuel. The earths air is full of moisture - trouble is we can't always see it. You don't , as Minister for Emergencies said, need 200 mm of actual rain to stop fires.

The claim that the fires in Eastern Australia this early summer are clear evidence of catastrophic drying and warming is simply unsustainable.

Real catastrophic fires in Australia are driven by high speed, low humidity winds . Over the last month mostly what we have seen is high humidity and low speed winds that have caused the incomplete combustion we are seeing everywhere. .

While outrageously huge fires have been shown leaping from ABCTV desks over the last few weeks, the reality is that most of the recent bush fires are not extreme enough to create crown fires, or fires which consume the forest ; leaving smoke to choke those in its wake .

A really catastrophic fire has to drive the water product and unburnt hydrocarbons away.

If you took our news services seriously, you would wake up each day for the last month thinking you could be consumed by high winds and high fire danger every day: There is time, even in summer, to contain such fires.

As the Federal government commission will find, it is State government incompetence in containing forest fires that will be the main reason for the most extensive forest fires in Australia in living memory. Link This is the result of a real catastrophic fire