It seems there's at least one liberal who believes in climate change;'This is not normal': Minister urges action on climate changeNSW Environment Minister Matt Kean says "no one can deny" that climate change is to blame for the smoke haze choking Sydney as bushfires burn across NSW.
In the state government's strongest comments yet on the link between climate change and bushfires, Mr Kean said: "This is not normal and doing nothing is not a solution".
Mr Kean, who spoke at the Smart Energy Summit in Sydney on Tuesday as smoke blanketed the city, said the weather conditions were "exactly what the scientists have warned us would happen".
"Longer drier periods, resulting in more drought and bushfire," Mr Kean said. "If this is not a catalyst for change, then I don't know what is."
Mr Kean said NSW needed to act urgently and have a "meaningful discussion about the causes and what we need to do to fix it."
"We need to reduce our carbon emissions immediately, and we need to adapt our practices to deal with this kind of weather becoming the new normal," Mr Kean said.
He said Australians could not allow "ideology and politics" to get in the way of "our clear path to secure our economic prosperity, let alone the health of our planet for generations of Australians".
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Maybe they should look at using low level prisoners to assist in fire fighting, also at hand clearing fire breaks instead of burnbacks, which seemingly always get out of control.
Raider
