Tony Abbott’s insistence that bushfires aren’t linked to climate change is like the tobacco industry claiming smoking doesn’t cause lung cancer, Nobel laureate Al Gore says.
In light of the New South Wales bushfire disaster, the former US vice-president says the prime minister’s comment that bushfires are a function of life in Australia and nothing to do with climate change reminds him of politicians in the US who received support from tobacco companies, and who then publicly argued the companies’ cause .... http://www.theguardian.com
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The largest of the wildfires wreaking havoc across New South Wales was started by the Australian military, investigators have found.
One man has died and more than 200 homes destroyed in the country’s most populous state since Thursday as a result of more than 100 different fires.
Investigators were called after reports that the biggest of them, near the city of Lithgow to the west of Sydney, started at around the same time as the army was performing training exercises .... http://www.independent.co.uk
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