Did the hot summer make more people worry about climate change? Here’s what the latest indications show
Around 65% of the British public are now concerned about climate change.
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We recreated the legendary heatwave summer of 1976 in today’s climate – here’s what we found
For 15 consecutive days, temperatures were over 32°C. Today, heatwaves are 3°C or 4°C hotter.
Should the UK name heatwaves like storms? It won’t make people take them more seriously
Italy unofficially names heatwaves, but ‘Lucifer’ was only slightly more effective than ‘Arnold’.
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.
Heatwaves are an invisible killer – and the UK is woefully unprepared
Extreme heat could kill 5,000 people each year in the UK by the 2050s.
In hot water: what happens to marine life during heatwaves
The full picture of potential consequences of the UK’s marine heatwaves is only just starting to emerge.
Deadly heatwaves threaten to reverse India’s progress on poverty and inequality – new research
Spring 2022’s record heat put most Indians at greater risk of a premature death.
Is India’s heatwave a freak event? A statistician investigates
Regular statistics isn’t much good at predicting the improbable.
Heatwaves: why ethnic minorities in the UK are more vulnerable, and what to do about it
In the UK, ethnic minorities are four times more likely to live in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods.
Heatwaves are now everyday disasters – here’s how the UK government can better protect people
Governments need to open cool buildings in heatwaves, as part of a wider set of additional responses, research shows.
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