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Wildfires are "absolutely" linked to global warming and increasingly intense heatwaves, the UN climate chief has said, as bushfires burned out of control in Australia.

So global warming is making a comeback or did she just not get the memo?

Asked in an interview with CNN if there was a link between climate and wildfires, Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said "yes there is, absolutely".

So this is editorializing by the reporter, because climate absolutely is linked to wildfires. A dry climate makes them possible.

"The World Meteorological Organization has not established a direct link between this wildfire and climate change yet," Figueres said.

Wait a minute. We are waiting for WoMO to rule on whether or not climate changing from moist to dry is linked to wildfires? What is this "climate change" they speak of? Are they being intentionally vague and misleading?

"But what is absolutely clear is the science is telling us that there are increasing heatwaves in Asia, Europe, and Australia, that there these will continue, that they will continue in their intensity and in their frequency."

So "science", from a source other than WoMO, is telling us that there is a link between increasing heatwaves and increasing heatwaves which then form an infinite feedback loop of growing intensity and frequency? Are they simply localized phenomenon or are they continent wide and will they spread to other continents?