Apocalyptic Fires in Australia Are Now Generating Their Own Severe Weather Systems
The fires are a devastating harbinger of the dangers of climate change.
The Mary Sue
By Chelsea SteinerJan 4th, 2020, 12:50 pm
Australia is currently undergoing a devastating bushfire season, where apocalyptic raging fires are so severe that they are now creating their own dangerous weather systems. The intense heat of the blazes has generated dry lightning storms as well as fire tornadoes, which are ravaging the already vulnerable country. Images coming out of Australia show red, smoke-filled skies as crowds of people have sought refuge on the country’s beaches.
... The bushfires follow the disturbing trend of other natural disasters that have ravaged our planet, which are made much worse by climate change. The gradual heating of the planet causes drought, making already dry regions more vulnerable. Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climate scientist at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, said of the events “It’s really shocking and really horrible and as much as I hate to say ‘I told you so,’ climate scientists have been warning about this for a very long time — especially in Australia … We knew that if we have drought and a heat wave, the whole country is a tinderbox. We knew it was going to happen.”
... Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack has also ignored the science, claiming that climate change is the concern of “raving inner-city lefties”, and declaring “We’ve had fires in Australia since time began.”Just 2 months ago, [Prime Minister]Morrison criticized environmental activists as “indulgent and selfish”, adding that “The right to protest does not mean there is an unlimited license to disrupt people’s lives … I am very concerned about this new form of progressivism.”
Morrison’s claims pale in the face of the apocalyptic conditions currently ravaging his country. Let us hope that this will be a fierce reckoning for climate change deniers across the globe. The world is literally burning.
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