Green ideas must take blame for deaths | smh.com.au

It wasn't climate change which killed as many as 300 people in Victoria last weekend. It wasn't arsonists. It was the unstoppable intensity of a bushfire, turbo-charged by huge quantities of ground fuel which had been allowed to accumulate over years of drought. It was the power of green ideology over government to oppose attempts to reduce fuel hazards before a megafire erupts, and which prevents landholders from clearing vegetation to protect themselves.

Richard Feynmann, one of the 20th centuries greatest scientists, talks to us about climate science « Fabius Maximus

This post gives an excerpt from “Cargo Cult Science“, Richard Feynman. The speech, one of the most insightful from his long and varied career, deserves to be read in full.