Fires were started by arsonists that lit up a poorly managed forest; add that to the fact that it is almost a crime to cut down trees next to your home for a firebreak. Their forestry management is terrible and they NEVER let fires burn....so well decades of underbrush are going to be hard to stop burning....and that is what is going on right now.

Yeah, fire because of arson?

There were much bigger fires past due to lack of fire supplies. What's your point?

There is arson, but there isn't more arson today than in the past and the majority of fires were caused by lightning.

These fires were predicted ten years ago and they were not caused by arson according to the authorities but due to extreme heat and dry conditions.

The fires are obviously much worse due to high temps

It's less obvious that the high temps are caused by climate change. Directionally, it makes sense -- but how much of the delta temp is variation?

That could be your imagination. Australia's temperature is quite in the normal range, similar to that of 1960s.

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/149434/2020/Historical-Weather-...

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/149434/1960/Historical-Weather-...

This is very, very wrong. If you want to cherry pick, I can too - literally days ago, western Sydney recorded its hottest ever temperature (48.9C, 120F). This is a region adjacent to where a number of fires are still burning.

2019 was Australia's hottest year on record.