Here in Australia, we have just experienced both the hottest year on record and the driest year on record. This has given rise to an unprecedented fire season that started last July, in the middle of winter. There are hundreds of fires and many remain out of control. They are likely to continue for weeks or months. So far 107,000 square kilometres have burned, just under the size of Cuba or Tennessee. This is clearly driven by man-made climate change, as was predicted for this time by the Garnaut study ten years ago.
Some days in Canberra smoke from fires to the East and to the South-West have given us the worst air quality of any city in the world. I recently published a Blog post that shows nearby wildlife in previous months and the effect of smoka haze last Sunday and outlines the Climate Crisis context.
https://murrayfoote.com/2020/01/05/australia-burning/?