Skeptics win on fires: ABC quiet flip — suddenly it’s fire management not climate change to blame

This is how the paradigm changes. The old activism is quietly dropped down the memory hole…

Buried in a save-the-koala story on ABC News tonight is an ABC journalist saying for the first time I can recall that it is “current fire management practices” that are the problem. Rani Hayman didn’t say fuel load, but she also didn’t say “climate change”. The reference to “indigenous fire practices” makes it obvious that the ABC means more hazard reduction burns (not that they can say so).

Skeptics have been mocking the ABC and Greens, and finally its too much.

Jo Nova 2013: Fuel Loads Not Climate Change Are Making Bushfires More Severe

and ABC plan to stop bushfires with windmills and buckets of your cash.

Suddenly the reason for the unprecedented fire situation is described as the way we manage our forests and it’s described in magical group think terms as “most agreed” – as if it was never contentious, and as if the ABC hadn’t been blaming climate change for years and wheeling out lame excuses for why we can’t do hazard reduction. Tonight we heard the new bland statement that we need to use indigenous fire […]