BBCNEWS Click June 4, 2024 03:52:00
Dr tom smith is a wildfire expert. i believe you're at the site of a summer grassland fire in scotland, which is very unusual. fires normally occur in the spring when the heather fuels have dried out and become available to burn before they green up and contain lots of moisture. that usually stops the fires from happening in the summer in scotland. but what you've seen is that the grasses have got so dry that they were available to burn in august. we're seeing these longer, hotter, drierspells, and that's predicted to continue through the rest of this century until we do something about carbon...