>>11290481>Thing is, certain parts of Australia that are burning now have never burned in human history before.Based on an extremely short amount of time among which there was no real large scale monitoring able to be done.
>A lot of what's burning is temperate rainforest, which you shouldn't be able to burn even if you tried.You know what a eucalyptus tree is right? Doesn't matter where they grow, they are flammable as fuck and propagate the fire very easily.
>Besides they've had 3 years of drought, is it really unexpected that things wouldn't even spark naturally at this point?You expect this to happen... How exactly? There are very few ways nature can cause a bushfire and the overwhelming majority of those is lightning, we get a lot of lightning here in the tropics but that's almost always during a torrential downpour, most of the country just gets heat lightning which doesn't touch the ground. Fires can occur through broken glass catching the sun at a perfect angle but this is exceedingly rare. It's fucking arson mate, there are plenty of admitted arsonists already and it's basically impossible to catch them if they use a little sense.
