Australia was first settled permanently by Europeans in 1788, so organised record keeping started from then. Aboriginal people came here between 40k to 60k years ago. Their 200 tribes relied on oral traditions.
Aboriginal tribes used fire for hunting. Both to encourage fresh growth to attract game, and to herd wildlife towards an ambush. This tended to reduce the fire load, but it wasn't some national and planned strategy.
There is significant data available from sources like core samples from coral, growth rings on trees, mineral deposition, and much more. The consensus is that Australia has always tended to be hot and dry, with both droughts and floods. However the trend has been to be more extreme in recent times.
In living memory, my granddad lived through the 1902 (Federation) drought, and I was a teen ager on a station (ranch) during the 1965 drought, which granddad said was worse than the 1902 one. There is no doubt that the current drought is worse than both. This from both actual records and personal experience.
I may be wrong, but my impression is that the only significant remaining groups of climate change deniers are found in Australian bogans (trailer trash), and US deplorables. Criticism starts with a rant against those "university educated intellectual elites", and it sounds like this attitude started in primary school, with jealousy about the teacher's pets who sat up front, and went on to good jobs.
TFLYTSNBN wrote:The E wrote:Daryl: Uses historical evidence to show that the australian climate definitely has changed towards being drier and hotter
TFLY: Well, you could've avoided this if you hadn't built so many dams
How about citing the climate record for the last 1,000 years?
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/12/austra ... ore-study/