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Matthew Jones

Senior Research Associate, University of East Anglia

Expertise: Global carbon cycle, Landscape fires

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Climate change is one factor affecting how fires in Australia burn, regardless of whether arsonists or lightning started them
CLAIM
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'

SOURCE: Sean Adl-Tabatabai, Thomas D. Williams, NewsPunch, Breitbart

Published: 08 Jan 2020

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