Listening to a family who farmed olives in Portugal, discovering that their house, farm and near neighbours were 100% surrounded by fires with no escape, and had to literally fight and win over the fire to survive...
I guess they might say it was well time to panic.
Without denying that the wildfires in Europe are possibly aggravated by increased fire danger conditions under existing climate change scenarios, we have not to forget around 96% of wildfires in the EU are caused by human actions. (Source:
https://effis-gwis-cms.s3.eu-west-1....nal_topdf1.pdf).
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