We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires.

I had goosebumps watching surreal footage of the mass evacuation of people stranded on the south-east Australian coast.

‘The thing that really terrifies me is that weather conditions
considered extreme by today’s standards will seem sedate in the future.’

Once again, catastrophic bushfire conditions are bearing down on communities during increasingly horrific summers in Australia. It has been an unprecedented continuation of the horrendous bushfires that started as early as spring in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales.

As I write this, the Australian navy is evacuating over 800 people from the bushfire ravaged town of Mallacoota in eastern Victoria. Holiday makers are being forced to abandon their cars, complete with kids’ bikes strapped to the roof racks, ice melting in Eskies. People hoping for a carefree break over the new year are instead faced with the extraordinary position of having to flee for their lives.

Read the story from The Guardian by Joëlle Gergis - “We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires.”