You are missing the point if drought periods are getting longer and the periods between marked more by storms than regular rain the climate change is real. Unfortunatley some commentators such as Andrew Bolt think that by referencing previous fires going back to captain cook there is an arguement that nothing has changed in doing this they are actually making the first part of an arguement for climate change . i.e. point one there has always been fire and drought. To continue an arguement against claimate change they only have to show that the droughts have not got closer together I dont know of anyone claiming that from the climate warming side . They are claiming that the droughts will get closer together the temperatures will get hotter and therefore where there is combustible material there will be fires . They are also claiming that storms will get more fierce .
It should be remembered that in John Howards prime ministership we had a drought that we were told was once in a hundred years . Short century that one .
