NSTworld: Scientists, former fire chiefs and residents touched by bushfires have all drawn the link between this season’s more intense fires and climate change.
As blazes that have scorched swathes of countryside continued to spread and the country’s largest city was cloaked in hazardous smoke, conservative leader Scott Morrison defended his climate record, saying Australia was “doing our bit.”
Australia, he said, was “doing our bit as part of the response to climate change” and sought to frame the issue as a global concern. On Thursday bushfires burned across every region of Australia with residents in Victoria warned to leave high-risk areas and officials in New South Wales reporting more than 600 homes have been destroyed in recent weeks.
Now the fire danger has moved into states further south, with a so-called “Code Red” – the highest possible fire risk in Victoria – being declared in the state’s northwest for the first time in a decade.
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