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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (58922)	2/8/2009 6:15:23 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 224751

ken..."Climate Change contributes to Catastrophic Australian Bushfires.".... The climate has been changing since the beginning of Planet Earth...sometime hotter sometimes colder. Climate has been changing before humans were present Australia has had bushfires for thousands of years and will likely continue for thousands of years Historical losses Figure 1 shows annual numbers of buildings (RHEs) destroyed by bushfire since 1926. The average annual toll is 84 buildings each year. Of the more extreme events, some 2300 homes were lost in the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria and South Australia; in 1967, another 1300 in Hobart, Tasmania, and, more recently, in 2003, 500 in Canberra. On five occasions since 1926, more than 500 buildings have been destroyed. Thus the average return period for these extreme loss events or mega-fires is of the order of 15 years, although we concede that there may well have been other equally dramatic fires in which few houses were lost due to remote location, More>>>

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