Indonesian fires shape as climate change tipping point

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wenty four hours after answering a Facebook message, Quentin Johnson, 56, retired fire-fighter, found himself at Sydney airport bound for Singapore.

At his destination the smoke haze was so thick he could barely see two streets. The pollution standards index (PSI) was 340: anything over 300 is considered hazardous to humans. He flew south, to the Indonesian island of Kalimantan, into the what has been described as one of the world’s worst climate disasters, into the source of the smoke haze, where the PSI was a record-high 2,300.

There he could only see 10m in front of him.

Read the TripleJ story - “Indonesian fires: is this a tipping point for climate change?”