24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
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Re: 24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
#2Not a fan of newsweek, so here is an alt
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/01/07/clima...
Re: 24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
#3Not a fan of newsweek, so here is an alt https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/01/07/clima...
And you're a fan of Townhall? Newsweek is just a summarizer, but Townhall is a spin rag. Nobody claims that climate change starts fires (how can an increase in temperature of a few degrees ignite a fire?) but that it makes the forest fire season longer in certain parts of the world. Your article sets up that strawman very prettily.
Re: 24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
#4Not a fan of newsweek, so here is an alt https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/01/07/clima...
The entire point of that townhall article is to push the blame away from climate change as if the absurd temperatures had nothing to do with this situation.
Re: 24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
#5Not a fan of newsweek, so here is an alt https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/01/07/clima...
“so here is an alt[-right]”
Re: 24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
#6What's the idea there? Insurance fraud, just causing chaos?
Re: 24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
#7The headline is misleading. In the actual article, these weren't people deliberately trying to create wildfires, just selfish people flouting the fire ban and having a campfire/bbq. Presumably, at least.
*Edit: https://www.smh.com.au/national/teenager-among-180-people-fa... More details. There was deliberate arson (like a teenager setting fire to cars), but not intentionally aimed at burning down forests.
Re: 24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
#8Not a fan of newsweek, so here is an alt https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/01/07/clima...
And you're a fan of Townhall? Newsweek is just a summarizer, but Townhall is a spin rag. Nobody claims that climate change starts fires (how can an increase in temperature of a few degrees ignite a fire?) but that it makes the forest fire season longer in certain parts of the world. Your article sets up that strawman very prettily.
Re: 24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
#9What's the idea there? Insurance fraud, just causing chaos?
I really hope it's just not an entire continent out for blood.
Re: 24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires
#10Wait... it's arson? But the global climate crisis forced these people to set the fires, right?
(Just want to get my talking points right.)