Scott Morrison is right - Australia's bushfires aren't down to climate change

I have long since learned, not least from my interview with Al Gore published here in 2017 that the surest way to get called a climate change denier is to quote genuine science that runs counter to the hyperbolic ‘science’ spun by the likes of Gore, Extinction Rebellion and the global Greta community. But no matter, here goes. No, the devastating bushfires in Australia are not a symptom of a world that is being consumed in conflagration caused by man-made climate change. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has been described as a ‘climate criminal’ for suggesting that climate change had merely ‘contributed’ to bushfires rather than being their absolute cause is a lot closer to the reality than is former PM Kevin Rudd who on this morning’s Today programme described one of his own MPs as ‘pathetic’ for suggesting that a moralistic approach to climate change is obscuring difficult decisions which need to be made balancing carbon-reduction targets with economic growth.