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"We’ve all seen the alarming images. Smoke belching from the thick forests of
the Amazon. Spanish firefighters battling flames across farmland. Blackened
celebrity homes in Los Angeles and smoked out regional towns in Australia.
If you felt like wildfires and their impacts were more extreme in the past year
– you’re right. Our new report, a collaboration between scientists across
continents, shows climate change supercharged the world’s wildfires in
unpredictable and devastating ways.
Human-caused climate change increased the area burned by wildfires, called
bushfires in Australia, by a magnitude of 30 in some regions in the world. Our
snapshot offers important new evidence of how climate change is increasing the
frequency and severity of extreme fires. And it serves as a stark reminder of
the urgent need to rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The evidence is clear – climate change is making fires worse."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
