BLACK THURSDAY 169 Years Ago : Bushfires Burn 5 Million Hectares or A Quarter Of Victoria
Posted: February 7, 2019 Filed under: Alarmist media, Australia, Carbon Dioxide, Climate History, Climate History News, Climatism, Extreme Weather, Heat Wave, Tim Flannery, Wildfires | Tags: auspol, Australia, Black Thursday, Bushfires, Carbon Dioxide, carbon dioxide emissions, Climate Change, Climate history, Climatism, CO2, Extreme weather, Global Warming, Greens, Tim Flannery, Victoria, Wildfires 2 Comments
Black Thursday, February 6th. 1851, as depicted by William Strutt in 1864
“IN a brilliant strategic move, it was decided that
the environmentalist movement was a new and
promising vehicle for obtaining political influence and power.”
– Jennifer Marohasy PhD
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THE Black Thursday bushfires were a devastating series of fires that swept through Victoria on February 6, 1851. They are considered the largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history, with approximately 5 million hectares, or a quarter of Victoria, being burnt. Twelve lives were lost, along with one million sheep and thousands of cattle.
THE year preceding the fires was exceptionally hot and dry and this trend continued into the summer of 1851. On Black Thursday, a northerly wind set in early and the temperature in Melbourne was reported to have peaked at 47.2 degrees C (117 degrees F) at 11:00am.
“The temperature became torrid, and on the morning of the 6th of February 1851, the air which blew down from the north resembled the breath of a furnace. A fierce wind arose, gathering strength and velocity from hour to hour, until about noon it blew with the violence of a tornado. By some inexplicable means it wrapped the whole country in a sheet of flame — fierce, awful, and irresistible.” (Wikipedia).

13 Oct 1947 – FAMOUS VICTORIAN FIRE | TROVE
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IN 1851, carbon dioxide levels were around 285 ppm. Today, carbon dioxide “pollution” levels are around 400 ppm.
CLIMATE change alarmists, like Tim Flannery ,their ABC, and The Greens claim Australian bush fires are unprecedented and becoming more extreme, thanks to human carbon dioxide “pollution” emissions.
THEY tell you this because the ultimate prize of the Climate Crisis Industry is the control of carbon dioxide (energy). Virtually every human activity, including breathing, releases carbon dioxide. Consequently, greenhouse gases have become weaponised in the global effort to control every aspect of your life and lifestyle.
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WHY AUSTRALIA’S BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY HIDES PRE-1910 TEMPERATURES
On February 6, 1851 – Melbourne was 117°F at 8AM. Data like this wrecks the global warming story, so BOM simply makes them disappear.

17 Jan 1857 – BLACK THURSDAY.
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CLIMATE AMBULANCE CHASERS
THE annual ‘summer’ season guarantees bushfires in Australia – a clarion call for climate ambulance chasers…
ASSOCIATE editor at The Australian and Sky news presenter Chris Kenny hits back with logic and reason to the lazy correlation by Leftist media and celebrities who associate every weather event and bushfire to man’s emissions, in an effort to improve ones virtue and morality over the next.
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SEE also:
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- THE Mind-blowing Costs Of Global Warming Hysteria | Climatism
- CLIMATISM : 2019 State Of The Climate Report | Climatism
- DRACONIAN UN CLIMATE AGENDA EXPOSED : ‘Global Warming Fears Are A Tool For Political and Economic Change…It Has Nothing To Do With The Actual Climate’ | Climatism
CLIMATE History related :
- TERRIBLE Week-Long Heat Wave : 41°C in the Shade and 71°C in the Sun | Climatism
- CLIMATE CHANGE : ‘Robbing Winter Of Its Terrors’ | Climatism
- Terrible Week-Long Heat Wave : 41°C in the Shade and 71°C in the Sun | Climatism
- Heat Wave In Australia : Nearly 200 Deaths From Heat Apoplexy | Climatism
- 24 More Die In Record Heatwave – Melbourne 46°C | Climatism
- February 1889 : Another Exceptionally Severe Heat Wave | Climatism
- February 10, 1893 : Victorian Bushfires Raging A Few Miles From Melbourne | Climatism
- 163 Years Ago Today : Bushfires Burn 5 Million Hectares or A Quarter Of Victoria | Climatism
- 81 Years Ago Today : Severe Global Warming Strikes West Australia | Climatism
- January 1908 : Adelaide’s Temperature Rose Above 38°C Fourteen Times | Cliamtism
- Shock news : Australia has always had heatwaves | Climatism
- The Worst Scientific Scandal Of Our Generation | Climatism
- BOM – Australian Climate Extremes PAGE DELETED! SEE : OPEN Letter To The Bureau Of Meteorology : Climate Extremes – The “Federation Drought” 1895-1902 | Climatism
STATE Of The Climate Report :
- CLIMATISM : 2019 State Of The Climate Report | Climatism
- CLIMATISM : State Of The Climate Report | Climatism (August 2018)
IPCC Report 2018 SR15 :
TEMPERATURE Related :
- THE Great Global Warming “Pause” | Climatism
- GLOBAL Temperature Drops By 0.4°C In Three Years | Climatism
- PEER-REVIEWED SCIENCE : The Medieval Warm Period Was Indeed Global And Warmer Than Today | Climatism
- THE SUN : Climate Control Knob, Enemy Of The Climate Cult | Climatism
- THE SUN : Climate Changer, Climate Driver, Climate Disruptor | Climatism
ORIGINS Of The Global Warming Scam :
- DRACONIAN UN CLIMATE AGENDA EXPOSED : ‘Global Warming Fears Are A Tool For Political and Economic Change…It Has Nothing To Do With The Actual Climate’ | Climatism
- THE Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming Scam | Climatism
- CLIMATE CHANGE : The Unsettled Science Of “Settled” Science | Climatism
- FATHER Of The 2°C Climate Target Admits Number Is Fabricated : ‘Two degrees is not a magical limit; it’s clearly a political goal’ | Climatism
- TIM FLANNERY – Professor of Dud Predictions and Climate Falsehoods | Climatism
- THE Orwellian Era Of @NASA Climate Pseudoscience | Climatism
- WESTERN Nations, Driven By A Global Agenda Of Climate Alarmism, Are Destroying Their Industries With Carbon Taxes And Promotion Of Expensive, Intermittent Green Energy | Climatism
- TOMORROW’S Grim, Global, Green Dictatorship | Climatism
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- The Creator, Fabricator And Proponent Of Global Warming – Maurice Strong | Climatism
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- THE Climate Change Farce Explained By Two Expert “Scientists” | Climatism
- UN IPCC : Climate “Has Almost Nothing To Do With Environmental Policy.” | Climatism
- UN IPCC : “Long-Term Prediction of Future Climate States Is Not Possible.” | Climatism
- UN IPCC Rewrote Temperature History To Suit Their Political Agenda | Climatism
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- THE ARCTIC : Ground Zero For Anthropogenic Hubris And Climate Change Hysteria | Climatism
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