The current Australian fires, according to scientists, herald the future of our planet. If the average temperature rises 3 degrees above the level before industrialization began, similar disasters will be commonplace.

In Australia, the average temperature rises faster than in the rest of the world. Compared to the time before the Industrial Revolution, there is an increase of 1.4 ° C, a global average of 1.1 ° C. Scientists warn that after an increase of only 2 degrees, catastrophic and irreversible changes will occur.

“Meanwhile, we can observe the effects of warming by a mere degree. Future impacts may be even more serious if the climate does not stabilize, ”said The Guardian, Corinne Le Quéré, a professor at the University of Eastern England (UEA).

In some parts of Australia it has rained in recent days, but the danger of spreading fires is still on the agenda. Richard Betts, a professor of geography at Exeter University, warns that Australia will not be relieved in the next two months. The hot air that has been driven over the Indian Ocean continent in recent weeks will now be replaced by the eastern Pacific weather system, so hot and dry weather is likely to continue until the end of February.

Betts said that extreme fires have shown how climate change actually manifests itself. Many people have not known it yet, and many still cannot imagine. Global warming is not only about melting glaciers and drought. “We are just witnessing the normal conditions in a world warmed by three degrees,” Betts adds.