The size of the fires is now more than 82 times the size of Singapore.
This research — completed by climate scientists almost two years ago — forecasted that southern parts of Australia would see increased fire danger should the global temperature increase by 2 degrees.
In our 2018 paper led by Chantelle Burton, we estimated that at 2C global warming, much of SW and SE Australia would see an additional 20 - 30 days per year with the Fire Danger Index at "high" or above Same in much of Africa, S America & parts of Europe https://t.co/L1zApd6YMx
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