The terrifying truth: Britain’s a hothouse, but one day 40C will seem cool

Below is an excerpt from an article in The Guardian of 18 July 2022 by Bill McGuire concerning extreme weather.

There’s no getting around it, the UK’s once equable climate is falling apart. We are now firmly on course for hothouse Britain and the signs are all around us. Just three years ago, the mercury hit 38.7C (101.7F) in Cambridge – then an all-time record. A year later, meteorologists at the UK Met Office mocked-up a weather forecast for 2050, showing 40C-plus temperatures across much of the UK.

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