Researchers found that climate change increased the chances of Australia experiencing extreme fire weather by at least 30%.
“There is evidence that Australian fire seasons have lengthened and become more intense – and extreme temperatures have played a role in this,” said Sophie Lewis, a climate scientist at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, and a co-author of the study.
Australia’s 2019-20 wildfire season burned a record 47 million acres, displaced thousands of people and killed at least 34. The fires also razed rare habitats and killed more than a billion animals, researchers said. Scientists looked at the Fire Weather Index – a measure of weather conditions that describes the risk of wildfires – in the areas of southeastern Australia that were most affected by the 2019-20 fires. It compared current conditions to the climate as it was around 1900, using observations and climate models.
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