Can Australia’s out-of-control fires convince government of climate change?
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government is refusing to discuss whether global warming has contributed to a longer dry season that is fuelling ferocious fires
13 November 2019 - 13:59
Canberra — Australia’s record on tackling climate change is getting tougher to defend for Prime Minister Scott Morrison as bushfires ravage the country’s east coast.
His government is refusing to discuss whether global warming has contributed to a longer dry season that’s fuelling ferocious blazes as summer has begins. One government legislator even questioned whether environmentalists had increased the threat of the fires that have so far claimed three lives and destroyed about one-million hectares of farmland and bush...
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