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Rain one minute, heatwave the next. How climate ‘whiplash’ drives unpredictable fire weather

By David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania

We’re not going to be able to stop climate instability and associated dangerous wildfire weather, so we need to adapt.

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