Australia’s wildfires show the perils of ignoring climate-change threats GlobeDebate
Leah Stokes, a Canadian professor at University of California Santa Barbara, after that state’s largest wildfire.a “long-term increase in extreme fire weather and in the length of the fire season” across much of the country since the mid-20th century. “Climate change, including increasing temperatures, is contributing to these changes,” the bureau said. The findings in North America are the same.spring. It exacerbated a multiyear drought in the region of the fires.
Anger in southeastern Australia at the inaction of Scott Morrison, the country’s Prime Minster, is palpable.
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