Australian fires and climate change

The document details the extreme scale of the Australian fire season, noting that over 15 million acres burned. It attributes the increase in dangerous long-term conditions for bushfires to climate change, which has led to an earlier start of the fire season and record-breaking heat and dryness in 2019.

• The Australian fire season saw more than 15 million acres burn, a scale significantly larger than the combined acreage burned in California during 2018 and 2019.
• Climate change is creating more hazardous long-term conditions for bushfires in Australia, including a long-term increase in extreme fire weather, a longer fire season, and an earlier start to the season, especially in high-population areas of southern and eastern Australia.
• Australia experienced record-breaking heat and dryness in 2019, with December being the hottest and driest on record and the year as a whole being the hottest and driest in over 100 years of records.

APA

Climate Central (2020). Australian fires and climate change. https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/australian-fires-and-climate-change

Chicago

Climate Central. Australian fires and climate change. 2020. https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/australian-fires-and-climate-change.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatecentral2020australian, author = {{Climate Central}}, title = {{Australian fires and climate change}}, institution = {Climate Central}, year = {2020}, month = jan, url = {https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/australian-fires-and-climate-change}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }