Read here. Many UN climate officials are attempting to connect the large Russian forest fires this year with global warming and drought conditions. As the expert scientists have told us though, the fires were not due to global warming - this is now a known fact. And, by the way, 9 of 10 of the world's most extreme fatal forest fires occurred before the supposed "unprecedented" global warming of the last two decades.
Yet we have UN bureaucrats still claiming otherwise. Why? Are they just incredibly ignorant or pathological liars? The false and misleading statements being made by UN functionaries provides even more evidence of why the UN should not be involved in any future climate change discussions. (click on image to enlarge)
Note: This chart depicts forest fires only, not brushfires that are so ferocious and very common on the Australian continent.