Australia Fires Caused By Global Warming

The Insurance Council of Australia said on January 7 that the bushfires have caused at least US485 million 435 million in damage and that number was likely to rise.

Australia fires caused by global warming. 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. Human-caused climate change is worsening the wildfires scorching Australia experts say. The scientific consensus could not be clearer.

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. Anthropogenic warming has worsened Australias fire risk by extending fire seasons increasing average temperature and drying the landscape. Such an extreme fire season is at least 30 percent more likely because of global warming a new analysis finds.

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. It is caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere mainly from human activities such as burning fossil fuels deforestation and farming. Since the beginning of the 20th century Australia has experienced an increase of nearly 1 C in average annual temperatures with warming occurring at twice the rate over the past 50 years than in the previous 50 years.

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. The burning of coal oil and gas is driving up global temperatures leading to hotter Australian conditions. 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. Thats particularly a problem in drought-prone regions like Australia and California. Researchers have started an attribution study to determine how much global warming is to blame for the blazes that.

In fact the research identifying a link between fires and climate change is old hat says Professor. Global warming is a key factor - but not the only one. 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.