Australia's 'Black Summer', A Year On: Can The Bushfires Stop Burning? | Insight
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- In late 2019, ferocious bushfires devastated more than 42 million acres of land in Australia. It’s one of the worst forest fires that the country has ever experienced in decades. The massive forest fires dubbed the ‘Black Summer’ destroyed 3000 homes and killed 33 people. 3 billion animals also perished in the horrific blaze.
How did it happen? Is climate change to blame for the unprecedented calamity? If it’s a climate induced disaster, what’s the government doing to deal with the root causes of the problem?
And more than one year on, has life returned to normal for the survivors who lost their homes and livelihood as a result of the disaster?
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3 BILLION ANIMALS KILLED? Rest in peace-
Yes, it was noted really made much of in many reports. The toll on life and the suffering of these that could not escape sounds horrific.
I consider myself extremely lucky. My town of Caboolture north of Brisbane escaped largely intact, although we still had homes and businesses with major smoke damage, and I was hospitalised for nine days in the last two weeks before Christmas due to exasurbation of my lung disease.
Just a thought.... All those 100s aircraft in the Bone Yard in the US that could be made airworthy bought and converted to water tankers to fight fires.... there are 100s of them...
I am now 76 but I still remember as a child of 7 in my uncles soft top sports car myself sister mother and grandmother and uncle accidently found ourselves going on the highway through a bad bushfire each side of the highway,burning trees falling on the road heat and us parked middle of the road under blankets hard to breath...we were lucky 2 fire brigade trucks saved us.those wonderfull men hosed the car down and escorted us to safety. .God bless them.
Pretty much everything is intact except for the hills and buildings in the forest
I grew up in Bermagui and Cobargo, so sad to see my home towns burn and close friends lose their lives 😢😢😢
We all love you dairy farmer I’m so sorry to what happend to you your dog and your farm❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭
R.I.P DAIRY FARMER❤️ we loved you
Having watched three videos on this event, I can certainly say that June Tarlinton has gotten more than her 15 minutes!
They have recovered along with us In Torrington in NSW 2371
Water generation study by the scientists and the use of defence forces to help the bush Fire crises.
Train the young defence forces to stop the bush Fire better than the aged.
I fear this year's fire season could be even worse.
Highly doubt it, 2019 was the hottest year by far in Victoria, it did start by Lightning, Cigarette Butts etc, but there was a moment of where Victoria had rainfall with lightning, we may not have that.
Terrible situation. Also terrible reporting, you have to totally ignore history to say this is something that’s new.
Temperatures have never been higher. That's a historical fact.
@@ducklord3604according to measured data they have mostly been higher in the past 10000 years. There’s ice on the polls.
@@mattyk82 Well yes, but in those 10,000 years was highest temperature recorded, in Australia, in 2019/20
@@ducklord3604no, that’s a satellite measurement, satellites have not been around for 10000 years. That’s at best the hottest recorded in around 100 years at best.
@@mattyk82 You have no real evidence to back up your claims. July 4th 2023 was the hottest day (globally) in over 100,000 years. Look it up. Don't try to debunking climate change, try debunking something that isn't definite fact.
At 23:04 I wonder what year is the classic VW Bug? I am guessing 1966 by the tail lights.
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So on bonfire night that's probably a bad idea in Australia because of all the fire happening already!!
The severity combined with the expanse was new. What surprised me was the hunting that must have gone on to find s deer.
Those who waffle on about lowering co2 seem to forget it also applies to them.
never ganna give you up
australia be like every day:
Me from mourya ❤
Mahavinash ki or ja rahi hai duniya
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Propaganda
Australia,
Return cattle land and farm land to nature, plant local plants in the trillions. Maybe, maybe if you act now and get rid of cement river banks and allow water to soak through the land and flood when it rains heavy. Put an end to carbon dioxide and methane.
You'll survive this. Otherwise, fire will get bigger and longer every year.
So get rid of a massive food source?
If only it were that simple... maybe do your research on the Australian drought... we had no rain and we need those animals and farmlands to survive?
its flooding and hailing everyday now. the weather is insane in Australia, watched my car get smashed by hail not an hour ago.
@@aussiegaming8156 weeell, in terms of food source, cattle are probably as inefficent as it gets, we could feed much more people if we replaced the crops we grow for cattle to eat with crops we eat ourselves
So that would actually give us more food
bush fires are a natural part of the changing of seasons in Australia, burning away old scrub country for regrowth after the wet season its climate change making the fires bigger they've always been there tho
Blame it on the greenys. They dont want as to do back burning...
Incorrect. See the responses to Vicki Coghlan that debunk this misinformation.
Hi May, back burning is done during the wildfire season and is a last-resort measure to stop the fire from burning out specific areas. It works by setting fires from containment lines, such as established fire breaks or hastily contrasted ones made with a bulldozer or cut by hand (source: theconversation.com/explainer-back-burning-and-fuel-reduction-20605). I believe you meant "hazard reduction" or "controlled burns" or "prescribed burns". This is usually done during off-season to reduce the intensity of subsequent fires at the same place by removing fine surface fuels such as leaf litter. While the common assumption is that there was a lack of "hazard reduction/controlled burns", it is found to be false. You can refer to the New South Wales Bushfire Inquiry report here www.dpc.nsw.gov.au/publications/categories/nsw-bushfire-inquiry/ on page 47. It says, "The Inquiry heard significant concern from the community that too much fuel had
been allowed to accumulate in the landscape, and that there was inadequate hazard
reduction burning undertaken to manage fuels. Recent analysis shows that fuel loads were generally high across most of the fire affected areas of NSW. However, fuel levels were on average no higher than they have been for the last 30 years. The dryness of the fuel and therefore its availability to burn appears to have been the dominant contributing factor. In some circumstances, areas that had been recently burnt for hazard reduction purposes were helpful to buy more time and create other options for containment, while in others the fuel reduction treatments had no influence over the spread or intensity of the bush fire. The results of initial analyses of data from the 2019-20 season indicate that more work is needed to understand fully the role that fuel amount and structure played in the 2019-20 season, and the extent to which some traditional assumptions may need to be re-examined." Thank you for watching the show!
You got the first warning 125 years ago. Ignorance and useless praying got you in to this.
Do you go bush??? Why would you back burn when there is a wild bush fire??? You back burn during winter. You don't know want you are talking about lol....
@@mayallardeduban1852 Hi May. There is possibly a misunderstanding of the terminology and differences between "back-burning", controlled burns / prescribed burns and hazard or fuel reduction.
A "back burn" is a fire intentionally ignited in front of an active fire front. "Fight fire with fire" if you will.
This back burn fire consumes some of the combustible material and creates a fire belt that impedes the wild bush fire.
Done correctly under right conditions, the back burn fire will move in the direction of the main fire without spreading elsewhere.
One strange question: How is it possible that all the fireplaces are still standing?
They are fire places, literally built to withstand fire.
I have seen bomb test sites where nothing is left but the fireplace. Fireplaces in a house are often built to be a strong point. Center of the house. They will almost always be the last thing standing.
Annual event
The annual disaster has been horrible. The way they respond annually to the disaster has been unbelievable.
The scale of the 2019-2020 fires in Australia is NOT an annual event.
Localized spot fires ignited by lightening strikes are an annual event. Blazes over thousands of kilometres simultanously burning over a period of 6 months has never happened before.
Fires covering territory from Queensland to Victoria all burning at the same time is not an annual event.
The fires in what were considered to be permanently "wet" forests in southern Queensland and northern NSW is not only NOT an annual event, but probably the first time these forests had burnt in millions of years.
Only Aussie would specifically reckon the bush fires are in different part of Australia. Foreigners think Australia is having bush fire annually.
how many snakes get killed?
They’re all safe in parliament
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