Climate Change: Bushfires create Australia's worst humanitarian and environmental crisis

Raging bushfires in Australia have led to a huge humanitarian and environmental crisis. The fires, which started in September 2019, has engulfed nearly 6 million hectares Killing 17 people and destroying more than 1,500 homes. The total area under fire is almost seven times greater than the 2019 Amazon fires and three times the California fires. Major cities like Sydney and Melbourne are under a thick blanket of smoke. With air quality dropping by 20 times below the healthy limits.
The start of the fires have been attributed to natural causes like lightning or human induced like arson
But climate change is the reason why these fires have become so deadly.
Australia has seen prolonged drought and 2019 was the hottest year on record with 1.5° C above average. Experts warn that these fires will release another 350 million tonnes of Co2 into the atmosphere. This Co2 will stay in the atmosphere for almost a century.

[thegreypoet]

Good info. But management of the Australian landscape hasn't been as good as it ought to be. That is one of the reasons the fires have been so unmanageable.

[kishinchhabria]

Sad but probably this is nature's way of letting us know our place.

[vitruvianman]

It's not theory any more, not some climate model or prediction in a scientific paper. We are not alarmists, we are now living those predictions.

[pankajmehrotra]

Thanks for providing us such a valuable information

[kishinchhabria]

Feel sorry for the animals there. No where to go.