{"id":348,"date":"2020-01-07T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2020-01-07T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:59:41","slug":"news-scan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"News Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>24 Australians Arrested For Starting Fires<\/strong>:\u00a0 While climate activists and many in the media are, once again, pointing to a natural disaster, this time the Australian wildfires, as proof of man-caused climate change, two dozen Aussies have been arrested for <em>setting<\/em> fires during the country&#8217;s hot dry season.\u00a0 Mark Osborne of ABC news <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/24-australians-arrested-deliberately-setting-fires-season\/story?id=68108272\">reports<\/a> that another 53 people are facing charges of violating safety laws during the dry season and another 47 have been cited for throwing lit cigarettes into the bush.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For context, California&#8217;s Camp Fire in 2018 killed 85 people, destroyed nearly 19,000 buildings and cost an estimated $16.5 billion.\u00a0 The cause turned out to be poorly maintained power lines and overgrown forests so dense that roughly 1\/3 of the trees had died from disease and were tinder dry.\u00a0 The Australian fires have killed 24 people, destroyed around 2,000 homes and is estimated to cost $2 billion. \u00a0 Far more acreage has burned, but Australia is a huge mostly uninhabited country and wildfires are common. \u00a0 Because of this, starting a bushfire in that country is punishable by up to 21 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Australians Arrested For Starting Fires:\u00a0 While climate activists and many in the media are, once again, pointing to a natural disaster, this time the Australian wildfires, as proof of man-caused climate change, two dozen Aussies have been arrested for setting fires during the country&#8217;s hot dry season.\u00a0 Mark Osborne of ABC news reports that another 53 people are facing charges of violating safety laws during the dry season and another 47 have been cited for throwing lit cigarettes into the bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>News Scan - Crime &amp; 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