Guardian: As the Blue Mountains burned last week, a grumble of local farmers gathered in Harden, on the south-west slopes of New South Wales. I met them in the middle of a wheat crop, hunched against the cold wind.
It had been snowing in the ski fields as the state's rural fire service chief, Shane Fitzsimmons, predicted catastrophic bushfire conditions in greater Sydney area.
While Tony Abbott and Christiana Figueres traded blows about the origins of the early bushfire season, I joined the farmers to...