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Footnote 343 / Smoke Signals: A Global Warning from Australia

  • Australian Bureau of Meteorology. “Climate Change and Variability: Tracker: Australian Time Series Graphs”. Climate Change - Trends and Extremes, http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/?ref=ftr#tabs=Tracker&tracker=timeseries. Accessed 28 Dec. 2021.
  • Australian Bushfires 2019–20: Exploring the Short-Term Health Impacts. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 25 Nov. 2020, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/environment-and-health/short-term-health-impacts-2019-20-bushfires/contents/maps-by-region.
  • Clun, Rachel. “How Summer Bushfire Smoke Blew out Our Health Costs by Almost $2 Billion”. The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 Sept. 2020, https://www.smh.com.au/national/how-summer-bushfire-smoke-blew-out-our-health-costs-by-almost-2-billion-20200922-p55y24.html.
  • Garnaut, Ross. The Garnaut Climate Change Review. 2008. ResearchGate, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20190509040128/http://www.garnautreview.org.au/index.htm.
  • Hagelberg, Niklas. Are “Megafires” the New Normal?. United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), 1 Oct. 2020, http://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/are-megafires-new-normal.
  • Johnston, Fay H., et al. “Unprecedented Health Costs of Smoke-Related PM2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian Megafires”. Nature Sustainability, vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 42–47. www.nature.com, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00610-5.
  • Mallapaty, Smriti. “Australian Bush Fires Belched out Immense Quantity of Carbon”. Nature, vol. 597, no. 7877, Sept. 2021, pp. 459–60. www.nature.com, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02509-3.
  • Richards, Lisa, et al. 2019–20 Australian Bushfires—Frequently Asked Questions: A Quick Guide. text, Parliament of Australia, 12 Mar. 2020, https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1920/Quick_Guides/AustralianBushfires.
  • WWF: 60,000 Koalas Impacted by Bushfire Crisis. World Wildlife Fund: Australia, 7 Dec. 2020, https://www.wwf.org.au/news/news/2020/wwf-60000-koalas-impacted-by-bushfire-crisis.
  • Wesner Childs, Jan. “Australia Wildfires Caused ‘Unprecedented’ Damage to Forests”. The Weather Channel, 26 Feb. 2020, https://weather.com/science/nature/news/2020-02-26-australia-fires-burn-unprecedented-amount-of-forests.
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