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Originally posted by Mr Hardwood:
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As a kid i didn't take much notice of records unless they where sporting or vinyl records, but i do remember a 5 year drought from 1978 to 1983 and fighting the ash Wednesday fires in 83 (scary) and a 47c day in 1987 in east Gippsland which were extremes for the temperate forests of South eastern Australia. Just reading a bit of history about bad fire years in Australia,..... 1851 black Thursday fires 12 million acres burnt.....1898 640,000 acres burnt....1926 980,000 acres burnt plus 1000 buildings and 60 deaths.....1939 4.9 million acres burnt 71 deaths a 44c day recorded in Melbourne.....1962 450 homes burnt....1967 432 homes burnt....1969 617,000 acres burnt 230 houses burnt 23 deaths....1987 a 1,000,000 acres burnt 75 deaths 2463 homes burnt. The only real change I can see is there are a lot more people and buildings in the path of fires now, and the hottest recorded day in Melbourne was the 6th Feb 1851 of 47c. If global warming is causing fires now I can't work what was causing in 1851. Maybe back then there wasn't as much money to be made by brain washing the masses, history is being conveniently forgotten.
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