Australia Fires Caused By Global Warming

Heat and dry conditions says Stefan Rahmstorf department head at the Potsdam.

Australia fires caused by global warming. Some of Australias great natural icons such as the Great Barrier Reef. Global warming stresses ecosystems through temperature rises water shortages increased fire threats drought weed and pest invasions intense storm damage and salt invasion just to name a few. The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australias record fires.

The scientific consensus could not be clearer. Fires can be caused by lightning strikes during Australian summers or by man-made factors such as overhead power lines and arson. Alarmists have been quick to blame climate change for the recent horrific fires in Australia.

Australian wildfires were caused by humans not climate change. Record warmth and dryness last year led to a severe wildfire outbreak in Australia with an estimated 50 million acres burned including more than 16. The science around climate change is complex - its not the cause of bushfires but scientists have long warned that a hotter drier climate would contribute to Australias fires becoming more.

Climate change is increasing bushfire risk in Australia by lengthening the fire. 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 boosted the risk of the hot dry weather thats likely to cause bushfires by at least 30 they say.

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. 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. 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.

Australia is becoming hotter and more prone to extreme heat bushfires droughts floods and longer fire seasons because of climate change. It is caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere mainly from human activities such as burning fossil fuels deforestation and farming. Despite the political smokescreen scientists are in no doubt that global heating has contributed to Australias fire emergency Smoke from Australias unprecedented bushfires as.