Savage_UK,
You may like this example......
Last week, we had a brushfire start on a nearby hill slope (everything absolutely bone dry at the moment). Probably somebody throwing a fag end out of a car window.
Within twenty minutes, we had three small aerial tankers (AgCat and Air Tractors), one helicopter and eight fire engines on the job.
Forty minutes later, virtually everything was out, the aircraft had left, and only about two or three fire engines remained to deal with the last few patches.
Final result, one hectare (2.5 acres) mostly a blackened mess.
Once the greenbats (or rather CO2bats) have their way, and tax local fire brigades and aerial fire fighting support out of existence, it would not have been one hectare, but about twenty (until the fire would have been stopped by roads, fire lanes and such, always assuming it wouldn't have jumped them).
Now here's an interesting sum....
What constitutes more environmental damage (and produces more CO2, for the believers) : 1 helicopter, 3 aircraft and 8 fire trucks for an hour, plus 1 hectare of burned shrub and trees....or 20+ hectares of burned shrub and trees?
The latter take two to three years to grow back significantly, so they don't absorb any CO2 in the meantime either.
CJ