AUSTRALIA’S WILDFIRE HOLOCAUST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Australia, U.N. spar over wildfires and climate change

Alister Doyle, October 23, 2013 (Reuters)

“…Firefighters were battling about 60 fires burning across New South Wales state, with strong winds fanning blazes in the Blue Mountains, a major commuter area of small towns west of Sydney…Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N.'s Bonn-based Climate Change Secretariat…[said] there was ‘absolutely’ a link between climate change and wildfires…Conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott rejected any suggestion that the blazes in Australia were the product of rising carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, a major Australian export…The dispute highlights how almost all climate experts say man-made global warming is under way but it is usually impossible to link it to individual extremes such as floods, heatwaves, droughts or the wildfires raging around Sydney…Wildfires, many of them devastating, have happened naturally throughout history. Global warming may, however, be loading the dice in favor of more extremes…” click here for more

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