The impact of climate change over the past five months across Australia has caused climate change deniers within the media and governments to quickly update their tactics to a new, sinister position. That created the conditions for the fires, and they do not exist without climate change. Rather than suggest no connection with climate change, they have shifted to arguing there is no connection between any particular climate change policy and bushfires. Scott Morrison to focus on 'resilience and adaptation' to address climate change Read moreInstead he has quickly adopted the new go-to response of climate change deniers – that of the need to adapt and “improve resilience”. It means the next step in climate change denial – a step I joked grimly last month was not far away.

Source: The Guardian January 13, 2020 16:30 UTC