scomo fiddles while Australia burns, page-39

Thanks MI

Barry Cohen, no blinkered partisanship here :

"Mark Burgess, chief executive of the Police Federation of Australia, quoted a report by the Australian Institute of Criminology and Monash University, which stated that Australia averages 54,000 bushfires per year, of which between 20,000 and 30,000 were due to arson. "

"Professor Mark Adams of the Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre estimates that the 2003 and 2006-7 bushfires could have put 20 to 30 million tonnes of carbon (70 to 105 million tones of carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere; that the 2009 bushfires (Black Saturday) created 165 million tones of CO2 emissions, and that Australia’s total annual emissions are approximately 330 million tonnes, of which 110 million are from bushfires."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2011/07/bushfires-are-the-real-emissions-problem/