I have been trying to calculate how much fuel was / will be burned during our mega bushfire. The simple calculation could be :
Fuel load per ha x amount of ha burned
Then we could compare those to amount of coal and gas burnt in our thermal electric plants during the year.It could happen that amount of fuel burn in bushfires is equal to all our energy used in Australia.
That means that if we theoretically cutt all those trees , grass and bushes and burn them in in furnace we could achieve sustainable, renewable equilibrium without devastating effect. But somehow cleaning trees and bushes before disaster strike is strictly prohibited. Long term conclusion and analysis of existing bushfires may come to the same:
not climate warming or changing pattern is at fault but our civil engineering planning.
"To much trees along roads and dwellings."We hardly could effect climate, -winds and temperatures in Australia , but we could bulldozer trees, make fire breaks, divide huge forestry structures into smaller manageable parcels. Obviously we could also irrigate and humidify our country ,but that is another subject.
www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/97781/Comprehensive-vegetation-fuel-loads-Fact-Sheet-V8.pdfFuel load 10 to 30 tonnes per ha on average x .6,000,000 ha = 60 to 180 mln tone
that will be equivalent to 30 to 90 mln tonnes of good quality coal.
But Australia did dig 430 mln tonnes of coal every year- so our contribution to global warming even without any catastrophe but on ongoing everyday basis is 10 x more
Luckily we are all agnostic, otherwise somebody could say that GODS punish Australia for such predatory resources economy.