Do we over sensationalise bushfires now?

[peternorth]

bushfires are now MEGA now

 

[Gough]

bushfires are now MEGA now

Canberra bubble issue.

 

[Deliverance]

No is the answer. These are absolutely sensational.

 

[peternorth]

Could be a Vic NSW merges mega fire.

 

[PT Bar None]

Could be a Vic NSW merges mega fire.

Nah, the NSW part will always think it's a bit better

 

[BEEG]

Let me start by saying this is not a slight against anyone who has suffered through a bushfire or a fire fighter (except Tony Abbott), the former have my sympathies, the later my admiration. But it does seem to me that the meeja, perhaps in the post Black Saturday era have decided that bushfires make good copy. I can understand major bushfires getting the full blown David Koch flies in treatment, but there have been some pretty minor bushfires getting some star treatment in recent days. Is it because there is cheap and spectacular footage and lots of human interest stories, is it because summer is a dead time for Australian news, am I wrong we don't oversensationalise them at all?

Might have been onto something.

Bushfires seem to be an annual thing always being reported with terms like worst year yet etc the past week majority of the public have only now really understood how ****ed we actually are atm.

 

[Run n Spread]

In terms of area covered and number this is the worse summer I remember. (Black Saturday the most horrific but that was the wind change no one was ready for). These are too dangerous to fight now just have to be contained round towns and be left to burn out

 

[Minidisc MD]

whats with every bushfires needing to be compared to some European nation, for example i saw them refer to one as "the third of the size of Belgium" forgetting that Belgium is tiny and Australia is huge and its just some arbitrary comparison.

 

[HahnPremium]

whats with every bushfires needing to be compared to some European nation, for example i saw them refer to one as "the third of the size of Belgium" forgetting that Belgium is tiny and Australia is huge and its just some arbitrary comparison.

Our juvenile, bombastic dumb and lazy media. But it wouldnt exist in such a manner if there wasnt a widespread audience to lap it up and gasp.

 

[peternorth]

whats with every bushfires needing to be compared to some European nation, for example i saw them refer to one as "the third of the size of Belgium" forgetting that Belgium is tiny and Australia is huge and its just some arbitrary comparison.

as a country we havent made it until it's feature on american news.

 

[SM]

whats with every bushfires needing to be compared to some European nation, for example i saw them refer to one as "the third of the size of Belgium" forgetting that Belgium is tiny and Australia is huge and its just some arbitrary comparison.

No different to putting a matchbox next to a fish to demonstrate size. It gives people a notion of size and scale because no one can comprehend what 15m acres means.

Pretty simple I would have thought?

 

[Minidisc MD]

No different to putting a matchbox next to a fish to demonstrate size. It gives people a notion of size and scale because no one can comprehend what 15m acres means.

Pretty simple I would have thought?

you catching goldfish?

 

[SM]

you catching goldfish?

I don't fish, it was an example. Again, something you seem to be struggling to grasp.

You're a new member so you certainly seem to be trying to catch something.

 

[Minidisc MD]

Our juvenile, bombastic dumb and lazy media. But it wouldnt exist in such a manner if there wasnt a widespread audience to lap it up and gasp.

While it's all very serious that people are dying, the media loves talking about this shit because it gives the audience a stiffy. some horseshit on the abc news the other day described country towns as 'red dirt towns.' people love this idea of it being some rugged scary big place and we're the only ones tough enough to live on it.

It's like when there's a cyclone. they get the glamour puss 20-year old to stand in the middle of a town in a rain coat going "so as you can see, the trees are being moved heaps by the wind and my hair's all wet!"

show the average family a map of the area that was burnt and they'll go 'oh yeah, that's a big bit of the state.' a third the size of Belgium? when asked, most Aussies would think they speak 'Belgian' there...

 

[Frank Bunn]

Today's weather in Victoria of cool temperatures and rain was exactly what was needed. Pretty much every fire was downgraded and there are no current evac situations.

How was this reported by the media? Sensationally of course. That it was a 'double edge sword' because it might make some areas more difficult to access. FFS it wasn't a monsoon, it was steady light rain.

 

[peternorth]

Today's weather in Victoria of cool temperatures and rain was exactly what was needed. Pretty much every fire was downgraded and there are no current evac situations.

How was this reported by the media? Sensationally of course. That it was a 'double edge sword' because it might make some areas more difficult to access. FFS it wasn't a monsoon, it was steady light rain.

Secretly they want the area to flood. Rain jackets on stand by

 

[Deliverance]

The ice age is here.

 

[FPPF]

Whens the last time smoke from bushfires here reached South America?

The media will always sensationalize these things.
Its all about those ratings.

They crossed live to a 9 reporter on KI this evening, and a helicopter flew over. No flames etc nearby or in shot, but she suddenly talked up a helicopter and stopped several times to turn back and look at it. Completely over dramatized a helicopter flying past.

The ones that are real campaigners though are the ones interviewing some poor person whose just found their home burned down, getting them to talk about it all and making them more emotional and upset in the process and to top it off dont even consol the person. Heartless vultures.

 

[Scotland]

People have seen their homes (what's left of them) on the news before they have been allowed to return to their towns.

That would be an extra kick in the nuts you don't need.

 

[ToddaRools]

Whens the last time smoke from bushfires here reached South America?
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I heard the big fire of SmokeyTuesday in 1182bc was a shocker

But in a serious note how can we quote stats of the last hundred years or so from out of 4.5billion?
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[Scotland]

But in a serious note how can we quote stats of the last hundred years or so from out of 4.5billion?
Climate change is real and has been since the beginning of time. Get used to it and adapt accordingly

We as humans can only really refer to human history.

In terms of things like weather patterns in Australia we can't go back and check the BOM daily observations from 40,000 years ago but have collected records for most of the time since European settlement.

Perth for example averaged 845mm rainfall per year from 1876-2016 and that has been 732mm since. Now rainfall goes up and down hence they calculate averages but dropping 15% over a 23 year period compared to the previous 140 isn't nothing. Maybe we'll have a wet 2020s but the data shows that over time the city is getting less rainfall regularly rather than just more extremes wet and dry years.

Yes we do need to adapt.

 

[FPPF]

I heard the big fire of SmokeyTuesday in 1182bc was a shocker

But in a serious note how can we quote stats of the last hundred years or so from out of 4.5billion?
Climate change is real and has been since the beginning of time. Get used to it and adapt accordingly

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I wasn't referring to climate change.

 

[Deliverance]

I heard the big fire of SmokeyTuesday in 1182bc was a shocker

But in a serious note how can we quote stats of the last hundred years or so from out of 4.5billion?
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Keep the tinfoil denial shit in this thread.

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[Lebbo73]

Lighten up man, it was a half hearted gag, but if you think he doesn't play up the whole firefighter thing, then you're naive.

How well has this post aged?

 

[Scotland]

whats with every bushfires needing to be compared to some European nation, for example i saw them refer to one as "the third of the size of Belgium" forgetting that Belgium is tiny and Australia is huge and its just some arbitrary comparison.

Well a tram weighs as much as 30 rhinos. That's the sort of reference points people come up with. Personally I found that incredibly helpful when driving in Melbourne given all the rhinos I usually interact with while on the road.

Belgium is a bit under half the size of Tasmania. 'A third the size of Belgium' is a useless frame of reference. Most people probably couldn't locate its borders on the map and would then need to try and conceptualise a third of the area anyway. Right now we've roughly burned through about 3 Tassies. Isn't that just much easier to picture? If it's localised fires just go with '10 MCGs' or similar.