Australia Wildfires Were Far Worse Than Climate Models Predicted

In a post-mortem of the Australian bushfires, which raged for five months, scientists have concluded that their intensity and duration far surpassed what climate models had predicted, according to a study published yesterday in Nature Climate Change.

The bushfires were far more catastrophic than any climate crisis models out there, leading the scientists to call the devastation, "a fiery wake-up call for climate science," as the BBC reported.

The study said that the bushfires were "unprecedented" after they burned more than one-fifth of the country's forests.

"This [was] worse than anything our models simulated," said climate scientist Benjamin Sanderson to the BBC. Sanderson, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, co-wrote the article in Nature Climate Change.

Read more: https://www.ecowatch.com/australia-wildfires-climate-models-2645279035.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

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