babyboy: "Call me an old tradionalist, but I would expect hotter, drier conditions to cause more fierce bushfires (all else being equal). Anyone who thinks otherwise is living in cloud fairy land. There's a reason why bushfire season is in the hotter months."
Great, but agreeing to that doesn't mean AGW exists, or is responsible for bushfires. The variability of the climate from region to region is as any other year over the past few millenia. Yes, hot and dry weather helps create bushfires, but the intensity is all about the fuel loads, which varies from year to year based on whether a bushfire hit in the previous year, or whether we cleared the vegetation, or how much growth was encouraged by climate in previous months and years. I'd like to know what AGW proponents suggest caused record snow falls in the Northern Hemisphere over the recent years! Who would think warming = record snow.
