17/04/2016

Climate Change: Tassie Fires

ABC Catalyst - Mark Horstman

We like to think Tasmania is a refuge from climate change – a cool green island at the bottom of a warming world.
But this summer may have seen a tipping point.
The unprecedented number and size of fires ignited by dry lightning in Tasmania are no longer 'natural' events.
Conditions are so dry that the soil itself is burning.
Ecosystems normally too wet to burn are going up in smoke.
1000 year old World Heritage forests face irreversible loss.
Is this what climate change looks like?



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