Australia Fires Caused By Global Warming

Global warming boosted the risk of the hot dry weather thats likely to cause bushfires by at least 30 they say.

Australia fires caused by global warming. In Australia there was a huge fire in the province of Western Australia in 1962 which led to a decades-long campaign of intense prescribed burning. 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. Global warming is an aspect of climate change referring to the long-term rise of the planets temperatures.

Australias Hottest Summer on Record Consistent with Global Warming Epic Heat Wildfires Are Scorching Australian Landscape Aussie Heat Wave Nears 122F Severe Fire Threat Declared. The Australian bushfires were exacerbated by two factors that have a well-established link to climate change. Anthropogenic warming has worsened Australias fire risk by extending fire seasons increasing average temperature and drying the landscape.

There is no doubt climate change must be tackled as an urgent priority but it is equally. Yes there is a link between climate change and the prevalence and severity of fires. Human-caused climate change made southeastern Australias devastating wildfires during 20192020 at least 30 percent more likely to occur researchers report in.

The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australias record fires. Heat and dry conditions says Stefan Rahmstorf department head at the Potsdam. Despite the political smokescreen scientists are in no doubt that global heating has contributed to Australias fire emergency Smoke from Australias unprecedented bushfires as.

Wildfires are a feature of life in Australia which is not surprising when you consider that it is the driest inhabited continent in the world. Thats particularly a problem in drought-prone regions like Australia and California. It is caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere mainly from human activities such as burning fossil fuels deforestation and farming.

As climate scientist Kevin Trenberth explained in a recent interview with videographer Peter Sinclair global warming directly intensifies wildfires by drying out soil and vegetation creating more fuel to burn farther and faster. At its height from 1963 to around 1985 very little was burned by wildfires but as more and more pressure mounted to suppress this practice more and more of Western Australia was burned over as shown dramatically in this. Australia is becoming hotter and more prone to extreme heat bushfires droughts floods and longer fire seasons because of climate change.