Australia Fires Caused By Global Warming
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.
Australia fires caused by global warming. Thats particularly a problem in drought-prone regions like Australia and California. The Australian bushfires were exacerbated by two factors that have a well-established link to climate change. Climate change is driving worsening bushfires in Australia.
The recent bushfires in Australia were exacerbated not only by global warming but also by other factors. Heat and dry conditions says Stefan Rahmstorf department head at the Potsdam. Global warming boosted the risk of the hot dry weather thats likely to cause bushfires by at least 30 they say.
Fires can be caused by lightning strikes during Australian summers or by man-made factors such as overhead power lines and arson. How Global Warming Helped Ignite One of Australias Worst Fire Seasons A firefighter works as a bushfirebelieved to have been sparked by a lightning strikeburns in Port Macquarie New South Wales Australia November 2 2019. Yes Climate Change Did Influence Australias Unprecedented Bushfires.
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. The scientific consensus could not be clearer. Such an extreme fire season is at least 30 percent more likely because of global warming a new analysis finds.
The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australias record fires. The burning of coal oil and gas is driving up global temperatures leading to hotter Australian conditions. Since the mid-1990s southeast Australia has experienced a 15 decline in late autumn and early winter rainfall and a 25 decline in average rainfall in April and May.
It is caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere mainly from human activities such as burning fossil fuels deforestation and farming. But the study suggests the figure is likely to be much greater. Alarmists have been quick to blame climate change for the recent horrific fires in Australia.