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A worrying time for your correspondent this week readers as bushfires, which have claimed well\u00a0over a hundred properties continue to rage in my region of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.<\/p>\n

While my town is safe for now, bushfires rage further up the Mountains and down in the Lower\u00a0Mountains where over the bulk of property loss has occurred. This is not to ignore other bushfires in Australia occurring in other tinder-dry regions where unseasonably hot conditions and lack of decent rain is a major problem.<\/p>\n

Now is not the time to pontificate as the emergency situation is still very real according to the Rural\u00a0Fire Service however when the time comes for sitting down and evaluating the loss, will the subject of a changing climate be included? Controversy rages higher than any bushfire on this\u00a0subject with many people saying that the jury is still out on\u00a0the human cause of climate change. This is not to dismiss their point of view.<\/p>\n

However with devastating bushfire seasons arriving earlier and earlier every year, rain at a premium and firies from around the country in my city in the national park,\u00a0perhaps the IPCC is correct in predicting major climate change increase for most of Australia<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I say this readers without a shred of scientific background or knowledge to back up my thinking and stand to be corrected. However ignoring the extremists: the deniers, narks and fossil fuel fans, mainstream thinking does appear to back that global warming is human based. This of\u00a0course backed by scientific study after scientific study<\/a>\u00a0(see references).<\/p>\n

So when the brave firies and their fire trucks leave after the latest emergency, and we all sit\u00a0down to register our loss what will we do? Will we as a community try to put in place steps to at\u00a0least mitigate the effect of devastating bushfires in Australia? Perhaps most importantly, will the\u00a0subject of renewable energy be included?<\/p>\n

Solar energy advocates have always sold renewables as not just a form of clean power but as a\u00a0way of reducing pressure on global warming. Their argument, which is very persuasive, is that we need to move completely away from fossil fuel energy to a clean, renewable energy world in order that rampant global warming be abated. This is the very issue which policymakers have tended to put on the backburner (sorry) as something for which future generations can resolve. here climate policy has a short a memory as the next election cycle in Australia.<\/p>\n

Will the latest bushfires in Australia ring a few bells in Canberra and the state capitals? Or have\u00a0they been ringing for quite a while now? Have your say on this important issue either here or over\u00a0at our Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like to donate to the NSW bushfire appeals? You can at the Red Cross Appeal<\/a>\u00a0and the Salvation Army Appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A worrying time for your correspondent this week readers as bushfires, which have claimed well\u00a0over a hundred properties continue to rage in my region of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. 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