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The super-duper 50,000 acre mega-fire of 2012, which our greenie friends are hysterical about. Over 100 houses were lost, because some people like to build wood houses in the middle of a forest which naturally burns about once every twenty years.

The panorama above is Lory State Park at noon today, which was reported burning this week. The only fire scars visible in the park are ones which are decades old. The forests on distant ridges on the right side were burned a few days ago. Almost no smoke is visible.

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It’s almost as if  at some level they know it’s untrue and don’t want to have it pointed out. Makes you look again at the cosy church-like ethos of the Believing paradigm.What do you get when you sign up?

A sense of virtue ; the warm glow of being a person of conscience – and yet not having very much required of you as a result, beyond deploring the lack of action on the part of governments, and maybe putting a brick in your toilet cistern.

A sense of martyrdom;  of  being unfairly persecuted for your lofty conscience –  without any of the inconvenience attendant upon actually being even slightly persecuted.

A sense of  belonging; of joining virtual hands with a network of fellow “martyrs”, all standing backs to the wall against the evil onslaught of Denial and Darkness. It’s the Fellowship of the Ring without the orcs. It’s the spirit of the Blitz with no danger of anything nasty actually dropping on your head.