The widespread acceptance of the outrageous claim that climate change 'caused' the summer's bushfires has the potential to inflict tremendous harm upon our nation. If we are blinded by this lunacy and fail to address the real causes of bushfires, efforts to avoid future catastrophe will be misdirected and more Australians will die

There really is one aspect of the recent bushfires that is genuinely 'unprecedented', that favourite word of climate alarmists and journalists so eager to be gulled: this year, as much of Australia burned, it became acceptable to use the misery and deaths of fellow Australians to advance a political agenda