The Right Wing Bullshite Machine and the Australian Bush Fires

In their demagogic delusional state, right wing wackos are trying to blame the Australian fires on arson and the Greens. What is remarkable about the first claim is that it simply doesn't explain the drought in Australia, the fact that fires have grown worse in Australia since the late 2000s, and the fact that temperatures have steadily increased in Aus. Australia has had record setting temperatures over the last two years.

As to the second, right wingers are attempting to argue that a lack of controlled burning is the reason for the increasingly intense fires. Again, however, while there may be a bit of truth to this argument, it does not fully explain increasing temperatures, the years of drought, and the intensity of the 21st century bush fires in Australia.

By the way, according to reputable sources, namely Australian police and fire services, while there have been arrests for arsons (as well as for looting) arsonists are only responsible for 1% of the 5.2 million hectares of New South Wales and 0.03% of the 1.2 million hectares burned in Victoria during the 2019 and 2020 bushfires. According to the New South Wales Rural Fire Services it is lightning that has been the cause of the majority of the fires in Australia. Perhaps right wing nuts will argue at some point that lighting is part of the great left-liberal-commie-nazi conspiracy to take over the world. But then they are truly delusional.