Australia Fires Caused By Global Warming

The Australian bushfires were exacerbated by two factors that have a well-established link to climate change.

Australia fires caused by global warming. Australia is becoming hotter and more prone to extreme heat bushfires droughts floods and longer fire seasons because of climate change. The recent bushfires in Australia were exacerbated not only by global warming but also by other factors. Global warming is a key factor - but not the only one.

The burning of coal oil and gas is driving up global temperatures leading to hotter Australian conditions. The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australias record fires. The scientific consensus could not be clearer.

Human-caused climate change made southeastern Australias devastating wildfires during 20192020 at least 30 percent more likely to occur researchers report in. It is caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere mainly from human activities such as burning fossil fuels deforestation and farming. Some of Australias great natural icons such as the Great Barrier Reef.

The Insurance Council of Australia said on January 7 that the bushfires have caused at least US485 million 435 million in damage and that number was likely to rise. Climate change is driving worsening bushfires in Australia. Australian wildfires were caused by humans not climate change.

There is no doubt climate change must be tackled as an urgent priority but it is equally. Alarmists have been quick to blame climate change for the recent horrific fires in Australia. Global warming boosted the risk of the hot dry weather thats likely to cause bushfires by at least 30 they say.

Heat and dry conditions says Stefan Rahmstorf department head at the Potsdam. Global warming played a big role in generating long-lasting heat waves that fueled Australias deadly 2019-2020 wildfire season a new study by an. And yet addressing this reality by reducing emissions will offer little practical help to Australians who must gird themselves against the threat of more fires at least not for the foreseeable future.