Abstract

Keep the climate debate until the fires have been extinguished so that the truth will not be smothered bby the smoke and heat.

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Mr McCormak, the Parliamentary leader of the National Party (Coal Mining), was most intemperate and transparent in his endeavour to deflect attention from the contribution of climate change to the current bushfires, which would of course work against the interests of those contributing to the pollution that causes the change.  His one virtue (it is not intelligence) is that he is not called Barnaby.  Mr Joice distinguished himself in his usual urbane manner by his sensitive comments that the victims who died in the fires had voted for the Greens. He recently made pronouncements on morals!

On the other side of the genteel and intellectual debate was a gentleman from the Greens, who gaave his opponents marvellous material to deflect attention by extreme remarks as to personal blame.  He, too, seems to have little understanding of his want of capacity to contribute positively to the discussion.

One Ms Devine, an extreme right-wing journalist of little consequence to anyone but those who want to read the kind of material she writes, blames it all on the Greens for opposing the reduction of fuel in forests in order to preserve the animal inhabitants.  Scientific study has shown that properly organized, this would not have contributed substantially to the result.  Her divrsion seems to be just another of the rather unusual arguments invented by the far-right so-called think tanks which are presented as one-liners and abandoned when they lose their force through a short analysis and scrutiny.

In this tragic time, those on the extreme fringe shoould cease their trivial trickery and leave the serious discussion until it can be carried out in a calm and sensible way. BUT THEN IT SHOOULD BE CARRIED OUT - AND THOROUGHLY, and those who advance specious argument in any direction should be revealed for what they are.