My journalist friend in Melbourne sent me an incredible article by one of his journalist friends who survived the current bush fires. The details were incredible...he lost his home, all the family pets, but he saved his family. The central point of his article was that life is precious and family is everything. There were dozens of responses to this wonderful article which were genuine expressions of love and support. Unfortunately some chose to make a point of blaming global warming for the wildfires...some blamed the government...incredibly one blamed the US for not coming to the aid of Victoria in its urgent need.
When I commented on this to Tony, he sent me the following:
"Glad you liked the piece. Agree about those pathetically wanting to make global warming capital out of it, notwithstanding that the northern hemisphere is freezing and Queensland is deep under floods. And there have been plenty of worse bushfires in Victoria way back to 1860, in terms of area burnt, etc.
There was an amusing poll on the ABC online, "Is global warming a myth?" The result from 15,000 responses was 90% yes, which was so embarrassing to the ABC that they took the poll off their site...it just disappeared."
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Love it! Did he say whether that was a Australian ABC poll or who did it?
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