Professor of Climate Science @ourANU @ANUEarthScience. Chief Investigator of @ClimateExtremes, Deputy Director of @AntarcticSciAus, Member of @ClimateCrisisAG
Jan 7, 2021 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
Excited to be able to share this comprehensive review on the many ways that climate change is increasing bushfire risk in southeast Australia, just published in @CommsEarth.
Our review focuses on forest fires in southeast Australia (NSW + ACT + Victoria).
Jan 6, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Tomorrow evening we have a big paper coming out on bushfires in Australia.
I’ll tweet a summary of the new work once the embargo lifts, but first here is a thread about the backstory:
The backstory began for me on Christmas Eve of 2019, when I was approached by @sciam to write an opinion piece on the link between climate change and the bushfires that had been ravaging Australia for months.