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[TreeHugger] Photo Credit: Andrew Brownbill, AAP via ABC Australia is in shock. It’s currently in the grip of the worst bushfires since white settlement, 220 years ago.

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[Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed] A history of fatal Australian bushfires: A HISTORY of fatal bushfires in Australia, and quotes from today's devastation: Feb 7, 2009 - Sixty-five people confirmed killed and fears .sort of event happen 25 per cent, 50 per cent more.

[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Australia: Fires 'like a horror movie': Mr King continued: "It was strange to think of the huge contrast - while I was here with the heat and the fire my mother was stuck inside with the snow. Even though we are on opposite sides of the world I think it says something about climate change.

[EarthBlips User Blog - Rover] Australia braces for major heatwave, bushfires - Climate Change ...: AAP: A HISTORY of fatal bushfires in Australia, and quotes from today's devastation: Feb 7, 2009 - Sixty-five people confirmed killed and fears of more fatalities in bushfires across rural Victoria. Dec 30, 2007 - Blaze kills three truckers on a highway near Coolgardie in WA.

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[Forests.org: Forest Protection RSS Newsfeed] Australia: Fires 'like a horror movie': Mr King continued: "It was strange to think of the huge contrast - while I was here with the heat and the fire my mother was stuck inside with the snow. Even though we are on opposite sides of the world I think it says something about climate change.

[EarthBlips User Blog - Rover] Australia drops water bombs on raging bush fires - Environment: Australian: THE death toll from Victoria's bushfires has risen to 84, amid grave fears for towns in the state's northeast as fires continue to rage out of control. Five people died at Flowerdale, two people at Hazeldene and three at Taggerty, while two more people were confirmed dead at Kinglake ...

[Global American Media] Deadliest-ever Australian wildfires kill 130 - The Associated ...: By James Grubel CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's deadliest bushfires, and devastating floods in the nation's tropical north, will increase pressure on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to take firmer action on climate change, environmentalists said on Monday.

[Sustainability Digest] Sustainability Digest » Blog Archive » Australian Heatwave ...: Australian Heatwave: “Climate Change Link is Very Likely”. Australian bushfires 2009 photo. Photo Credit: Andrew Brownbill, AAP via ABC. Australia is in shock. It’s currently in the grip of the worst bushfires since white settlement, ...

[Andrew Bolt] Global cooling | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog: Andrew, could I suggest that you write an open letter to the PM, Garrett, Wong etc, outlining some of the more relevant facts and figures on the subject? It really is time that, somehow, the contrary argument should be brought to the attention of Joe and Josephine Public.

[Watts Up With That?] Happy Halloween: Climate change could haunt humanity forever ...: Given that Australia is prone to massive bush fires, and given that those bush fires account for 80 to 90 percent of Australian carbon emissions, and given that the Australian government cannot prevent those bush fires even if they wanted to, then how on Earth is Australia going to reduce carbon emissions by anything more than a point or two, even if the Australian economy is completely snuffed out?

[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy: Bushfires in Tasmania: A Note from Cinders: Currently they are working on the Gippland fires in Victoria, the Tasmanian fires, they were involved in fire suppression activities in the Plliga a week ago and are involved in the supression activites of the current blaze in Tumut. They are either members of the RFS, CFA or equivalent, employed by the forestry services of their state or are contractors using their heavy machinery to assist in supression activities.

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