Liberal MPs say there's no use 'beating around the bush' — bushfires are stoked by climate change

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Two senior figures have acknowledged the link between the global environmental crisis and the state's intense bushfire season this year which has left six people dead.

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"We cannot deny that these fires have been going on for weeks and we need to address the causes of them," he said. Federal Minister for Environment Sussan Ley agreed with Mr Kean's comments on ABC Radio Sydney this morning.

 

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Really climate chang is real WOW.

total BS and I know BS I own a bull ...you are fake news ABC

I believe in a god, I believe my wife loves me, I believe my kids are good, I believe politicians are parasites. Belief is NOT scientific or factual proof of anything. When there are FACTS and real experiments that prove humans are causing global warming let me know.

Need to ask the traditional owners of the continent about their belief on use of fire.

And here I am thinking it was mostly started by some little pyromaniacs whom don’t seem to be receiving more than a stern word upon being caught 🙄 more media bullshit, left leaning liberal bullshitters

LNP will lose Government if they don’t do more on Climate policy. The mood of the wider electorate has changed since the last election ClimateCrisis

When there are floods, is that climate change as well, or just caused by lots of rain ?

Given that climate change has made bushfires more likely shouldn’t we manage the bush better?

It's great that you are willing to break ranks and call for action. More should ...we may get some honesty from a morally bankrupt government. Climate change isn't a threat....it's here now. We must stop digging up and exporting or burning coal for the benefit of all.

These arseholes have never cared. This is all about preservation or their jobs

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But shhhh, don't tell Scomo

sackscottmorrisonnow

Wonders will never cease.

LNP politicians need to say this in the Party Room. That’s where the first change needs to be made.

1938 Black Friday 3700 buildings 71 dead 1967 Black Tuesday 1293 buildings 62 dead 1983 Ash Wednesday 2400 buildings 75 dead 2009 Black Saturday 4029 buildings 173 dead 2019 'Climate Fires' 724 buildings 6 dead

Hey ScottMorrisonMP GladysB PeterDutton_MP there's rebellion in LiberalAus LiberalNSW ranks! When's the next NationalSecurity Defence LawAndOrder ScareCampaign gonna happen? auspol nswpol NSWbushfires nswbushfire sydneysmoke sydneyfires sydneybushfires

720 homes destroyed. 6 deaths. 10 years ago (during the previous drought) we had the Black Saturday fires with: 3,500 buildings destroyed and 173 deaths. Tell me again how climate change is making the bushfires worse?

This seems to have ignited the wrath of the deniers. Poor fella my country fires

propaganda

That right When LNP are finished there won’t be any Bush to beat about in

Ok doomers haha!!! This is all really convenient bs

They too are ignorant because Nobody knows the Answer to that Question . The short answer is Maybe and Maybe Not . There is No definitive Proof but that doesn't say that it's not causing it .

can someone FactCheck national party leader AGAIN i know its like probably your most common fact check request but statistics have shown in one fire event after another study after study say power lines then lightning strikes are the most common causes of AUSTRALIANBUSHFIRES

Bushfires are lit by arsonists and stoked by bad forest management. Fixed it for you.

I forget is it climate change or global warming this week

It's a long hot, dry summer so far but not the worst on my farm. The big gums have dropped all their outer bark as they do each year and have for hundreds of years. Without burning off that bark gets meters deep and all it takes is a spark and that's what makes bushfires.

There should be clearing then we will get germination Let the 1st Nations people look after the Bush, not the Greens or local councils they have proved ineffective.

You will have to kill off all the public over 35 if you want to win with this rubbish .

It takes a special kind of stupid to believe that climate change causes bushfires lit by arsonists. Tinder dry undergrowth, has been allowed to grow without precautionary back-burning, due to restrictive government legislature mandated by activism & environmental concerns.

It was reported this am on another channel that a 15 yr old was charged for starting fires in Queensland. When is media going to show and tell who these crims are?

Folks that own land ‘in the bush’ but live in city make for shite landlords. Weeds, fences, fuel loads, no-show at RFS/SES. Lawyers, bureaucrats, telecommuters, I’m talking to you

Oh Goodie!

Yes we've never had bad bushfires before have we

the leadership is pathetic They r trying to sideline the issue Bugger the kids' future Shameless leaders

emmaels Big words by NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean. Matt_KeanMP While the NSW government tabled legislation which removes the requirement to consider downstream greenhouse gas emissions for coal mine applications

Say it louder please Keen and Lay. Your party needs a tipping point from the ranks.

...for over a century Australia has endured heat waves and bush fires for breakfast...

Absolute rubbish. Why is the ABC peddling the UN's climate-change Agenda? The scientifically-ludicrous, AGW-hypothesis is debunked, dead; killed by the reality of a cooling world. The Solar Minimum is here - report that.

WRONG!

Just because they are Liberals it doesn't mean that they are not dickheads.

Bullshit

Sorted 😁

Bush fires are stoked by dead vegetation on the ground, layers and layers of it.

Matches rule

There are 140 Liberal MP's in parliament (47 NSW State Liberals and 93 Federal Liberals), which means this story is about 1.4% of the total Liberal members of NSW State and Federal governments. But naturally TheirABC won't tell you that.

Arsonists probably aren’t helping the situation either.

There is no bush to beat around anymore....

No the party does not yet agree with your propaganda about the BS of globaal warming...you will be happy that one idiot MP agrees with you that the Liberals should give up the majority and go into opposition by joining with the greens .green policy =bush fires

There’s no shortage of fools.

A liberal member capable of rational thought? I wonder how long until they throw him out.

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