As far as records go, the Black Summer fires were unprecedented in their scale and ferocity. But a new discovery tells a different story.
and likely will again, a new study on the nation's weather patterns stretching back 2000 years has shown.
The size of weather systems that cause extreme bushfire weather in Australia are so big, they also impact Antarctic weather at the same time. The ice core data showed that bushfire weather in south-east Australia was as bad or worse than during Black Summer at least seven times over the past 2000 years.Climate scientists studying the sea ice at Law Dome Cape - a large ice dome which rises 1,400m above sea level - in Antarctica.
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