Inter Press Service: While the bushfires which ravaged parts of the state of Victoria earlier this month – the most devastating in the nation’s history – are not being blamed directly on the effects of climate change, it is clear that global warming was indeed a factor. “In terms of the temperature component of the fire weather on Feb.7, I think we can say that increases in greenhouse gas conditions are partly responsible,” says Kevin Hennessy, leading climate scientist. Hennessy, who is principal …