We need to speak bluntly today.  

The bushfires in Australia are becoming more common and they are now more severe than they were due to climate change.They have become firestorms. 

This connection is often denied politically by those on the conservative side of politics who spin, dissemble and gaslight.   They say that historically Australia is a land of fire and flood.  Nothing new here. It is just the eternal recurrance of the same. This response represents  a denial of the danger of fire storm and it is a part of the conservatives  doing every thing possible to frustrate climate action.  

But the bushfires of yesterday are now the firestorms of today -- eg., the  fires along the Great Dividing Range  of the Black Summer of 2019-20.   These  fires were far from normal. 

 The distinctive ferocity of this  weather event with  its fire fume  was intensified by its own frightening physics and chemistry. Some of the fires that roar out of the Australian bush today  are unstoppable. It is probably beyond the capacity of  a poetic film photography to represent the terror, trauma and grief in the fire-ravaged communities associated with  the  Black Summer fire storms.