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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1183449)	12/7/2019 2:39:32 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1578303

AUSTRALIA BUSHFIRES NORTH OF SYDNEY ‘TOO BIG TO PUT OUT’ A “mega blaze” raging across a 60km (37 mile) front north of the Australian city of Sydney cannot currently be put out, fire officials have warned. New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) deputy commissioner, Rob Rogers told ABC: “We cannot stop these fires, they will just keep burning until conditions ease, and then we’ll try to do what we can to contain them.” He said the 60km stretch from Hawkesbury to Singleton was “just fire that whole way”. “There is an absolute lack of moisture in the soil, a lack of moisture in the vegetation… you are seeing fires started very easily and they are spreading extremely quickly, and they are burning ridiculously intensely.” bbc.com == LEADING SCIENTISTS CONDEMN POLITICAL INACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AS AUSTRALIA ‘LITERALLY BURNS’ Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climate scientist with the University of NSW’s Climate Change Research Centre, said she was “surprised, bewildered, concerned” that the emergency had prompted little discussion from political leaders this week. “Here we are in the worst bushfire season we’ve ever seen, the biggest drought we’ve ever had, Sydney surrounded by smoke, and we’ve not heard boo out of a politician addressing climate change.” Euan Ritchie, a wildlife ecologist at Deakin University, said he was “deeply concerned” that the extent and severity of the current fires meant that ecosystems that shouldn’t be burning – such as rainforests in NSW – were on fire. “It’s another example of failure to act on climate change, which is hurting people’s lives as well as nature.” theguardian.com