We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires | Joëlle Gergis

As a climate scientist I am wondering if the Earth system has now breached a tipping pointI had goosebumps watching surreal footage of the mass evacuation of people stranded on the south-east Australian coast.Once again, catastrophic bushfire conditions are bearing down on communities during increasingly horrific summers in Australia. It has been an unprecedented continuation of the horrendous bushfires that started as early as spring in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales. Continue reading...