The apocalyptic photos clearly haven’t done their trick. Rightly so because most of the 667 fires that have erupted across Greece were started “by human hand”, the country’s senior climate crisis official has said.
In fact, an article in the WSJ shows quite the opposite from a world on the verge of burning itself up. Since 2021, the percentage of the world that burns has been on the decline.
Satellites have been recording the amount of fires on the planet’s surface and the trend is very firmly down. In the early 2000s, 3% of the world burnt but last year a new low was set at 2.2%.
Underwater Volcanic Eruption
Whilst I am on the subject of climate change, readers keep referring me to a volcanic eruption, that occurred last year, that was rarely mentioned.
This happened on 15 January 2022 in Tonga but we didn’t hear much about it because it was underwater. However, this was a major event which NASA warned could temporarily warm the Earth’s surface.
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