Pompeo offers condolences to fire-ravaged Australia

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday offered his condolences to people of Australia who have been ravaged by fires. Australia's bushfires since September have emitted about 350 million tons of carbon dioxide, equal to two-thirds the country's annual emissions from man-made sources, the director of the Global Carbon Project estimated based on data from NASA satellites.

Fires have also ripped through more than 8 million hectares of land this summer fire season, an area nearly the size of Austria, razing thousands of building and leaving some towns without electricity and mobile coverage.