Climate and bushfires, 2020. No, it hasn't "happened before"!

Here's a short GIF movie I made after wading among the denialist nonsense flooding our mainstream media facebook sites. What does it take to wake these people up? Many of them quote poet Dorothea MacKellar's poem 'My country' as if this recent catastrophe was normal. Many say, "It's summer. It happens every summer", ignoring (among many other facts) that this fire season was out of control from very early September. It's hard to fathom. But I guess ignoring stuff is pretty much the definition of ignorance.

The GIF combines images of the 2020 bushfires with climate facts. Feel free to share!

Meanwhile MacKellar's poem remains a gem. Don't let denialists claim it!

https://www.dorotheamackellar.com.au/archive/mycountry.htm