Climate change 'increases bushfire risk'

By Dominic Geiger
Updated September 3 2013 - 7:26am, first published 4:07am

As the state stares down the barrel of a worse than average bushfire season, a senior University of Wollongong scientist has warned the effects of global warming are already sparking more frequent, more intense blazes.

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