The Independent, on Climate, 14 November 2026
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Read the original article on independent.co.uk (opens in a new tab)The Independent reports a World Weather Attribution study finding that human-caused heating and El Nino made the hot, dry conditions behind Indonesia's 2026 wildfires far more severe, alongside decades of peatland drainage and deforestation. It states the human cause of warming plainly, keeps the study's uncertainty on rainfall, and reports the health and wildlife harm. Nothing in it misleads the reader.
“Human-caused global heating, driven mainly by the burning of fossil fuels, was the primary driver of high temperatures between August and October”
The Independent names the human cause and the fossil fuel source of the warming in its own voice, with no hedge on the basic science, and ties it to this fire season's heat.
“the authors describe the role of the climate crisis in the lack of rain as uncertain”
The article keeps the study's own qualification: it does not stretch the finding on rainfall beyond what the models support, so the reader can tell the firm results from the uncertain one.
“The study also points to decades of land-use change, including logging, the expansion of agroforestry and the draining of peatland”
The article gives the reader the land-use causes the study identifies, so the fires are not presented as a matter of weather alone.
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