From WSJopinion: The climate-change narrative grossly oversimplifies Australia’s bush fires, whose causes are as complex as their recurrence is predictable, writes pwafork
Kim Strassel, Jason Willick, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger guess what's about to happen. Image: Brendan Smialowski/Getty ImagesI’ll never forget my first Christmas in Australia. The year was 2001. The mercury hovered around 100 degrees Fahrenheit—you don’t get a white Christmas in Sydney.
From the balcony of an apartment overlooking Bondi Beach, I watched the sky turn from a bright blue to an ashen gray to a brackish brown as smoke poured down from over the hill behind us. What would later be known as the Black Christmas fires raged in the Blue Mountains, 50 or so miles inland.
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