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Climate change made Australia’s devastating fire season 30% more likely

But researchers say the result is conservative, and that weather conditions that make fires more likely will continue to worsen.
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The extreme fires that razed more than 18 million hectares of bush in Australia late last year were significantly more likely because of human-induced climate change, say an international group of climate scientists who have analysed the disaster.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00627-y

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