There's nothing incomprehensible about it. There are plenty of reasons for it with a large high temperature contribution. Certainly it's disastrous and tragic but it's not new. In 1974-1975, almost 15% of the total area of Australia was burnt. As of 7th January, the area burnt (it will clearly increase) is less than 10% of that destroyed in the earlier conflagration.<p><a href="https://www.australiasevereweather.com/fires/history.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.australiasevereweather.com/fires/history.htm</a><p>'An integral part of the Australian environment'
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