Fires in Australia: Hundreds Dead

We shall now have a moment of silence from the Global Warming Denialists. (By the way, did you notice? No praying or exortations to a creator or savior during this report. That was nice.)

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I often read the weblog Sepia Mutiny, and today there was a post about a pair of men flying while brown. They were pulled off the plane and their bags were sent ahead.

"Taking a chainsaw to a burning tree..."

And on top of this - literally two states up - torrential rains in Queensland is flooding the place and drowning people. Somehow I can't blame people for thinking it's the end times...