CrusaderFrank,
you will like this one, from
WIKIPEDIA:
Bushfires in Australia
Excerpt:
Bushfires in Australia impact extensive areas and cause property damage and have accounted for the deaths of 800 people in Australia since 1851,
[1] and millions of animals.
[2]
A small amount of Australia's native
flora have evolved to rely on
bushfires as a means of reproduction – for example
grass trees following fire duress will send up large flower spikes to assist in procreation of the species; however the mother plants usually die off the following season – and fire events were in the past an interwoven part of the ecology of the continent. For thousands of years,
Indigenous Australians have
used fire to clear grasslands for hunting and to clear tracks through dense vegetation; however this was only in periods of high rainfall and in very small grassland zones bordering desert. The food thus gained provided much needed protein to nomadic tribes.
Major
firestorms that result in severe loss of life are often named based on the day on which they occur, such as
Ash Wednesday and
Black Saturday. Some of the most intense, extensive and deadly bushfires commonly occur during droughts and
heat waves, such as the
2009 southeastern Australia heat wave, which precipitated the conditions during the 2009
Black Saturday bushfires in which 180 people died. Other major
conflagrations include the 1851
Black Thursday bushfires, the
2006 December bushfires and the ongoing
2019–20 bushfires.
[3] The
1974-75 season's bushfires burnt in excess of 95 million ha, by far the largest total recorded for any one season so far.
Which translates to this chart covering the last 100 years,:
Fig. 1. Yearly fire season (June through May) hectares burned by major bushfires in Australia since the 1919-20 season (2019-20 season total is as of January 7, 2020).
As can be seen, by far the largest area burned occurred during 1974-75, at over 100 million hectares (close to 15% of the total area of Australia). Curiously, though, according to Australia Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)
data, the 1974-75 bushfires occurred during a year with above-average precipitation and below-average temperature. This is opposite to the narrative that major bushfires are a feature of just excessively hot and dry years.
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1975 fire season was by far the worst year, in a wet year and cooling year too...., yet warmists ignoramus will ignore it.
David Bowman, the director of the University of Tasmania's Fire Center, says that there's no reason to point a finger at green activists...."You could not do planned burning if you wanted to....that's why those areas have not been treated."
