UK weather: Climate change warning issued by expert
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Britain recorded record highs in July with the Met Office confirming temperatures soared to 40.3C (104.54F) on July 18 in Coningsby, Lincolnshire. The nation has continued to experience high temperatures and prolonged periods without rainfall have forced several regions under hosepipe bans.
The UK’s July heatwave was reportedly made 10 times more likely due to human-caused activities, according to a scientific study.
Study co-author Friederike Otto, of Imperial College London, who leads the World Weather Attribution group, said: “In Europe and other parts of the world, we are seeing more and more record-breaking heat waves causing extreme temperatures that have become hotter faster than in most climate models.
“It’s a worrying finding that suggests that if carbon emissions are not rapidly cut, the consequences of climate change on extreme heat in Europe, which already is extremely deadly, could be even worse than we previously thought.”
The Earth has reportedly warmed by 1.1C (33.98F) in the last 200 years since the industrial revolution.
Global warming is expected to reach 1.5C (34.7F) within the next 20 years.
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In a poll that ran from 9am on Tuesday, August 2, to 2pm on Tuesday, August 9, Express.co.uk asked readers: “Are you concerned about climate change in Britain?”
A total of 1,221 people cast their votes with the vast majority, 82 percent (1,004 people), answering “no”, they are not concerned about climate change in Britain.
A further 17 percent (211 people) said “yes” they were, while just six people said they did not know.
Dozens of comments were left below the accompanying article as readers debated the threat of climate change.
Most readers were not concerned about the impact of climate change as they viewed it as a natural cycle.
Username sebsmit said: “Climate change is natural and has been constant since the earth was formed. Man can do nothing to stop it.”
Username QUITY said: “The Sun has always controlled the Earth’s climate and the weather.
“At the moment it is changing everything to warm the climate up, man has to adapt. The human race survived the last cooling.”
Another, username Williamneilson, said: “Climate change is incessant but it has sod all to do with man.”
And username Malamute said: “No not concerned, the climate has always changed and we humans have always adapted.”
Other readers argued that climate change was a hoax and was damaging the economy.
One reader, username mfj2305 commented: “No, it is a tax-grabbing hoax.”
Username Simo69 said: “It’s all fake to try and get us to have an electric car and heat pumps when there is no need. It’s all a big scam.”
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And username Toonpatriot said: “Scaremongering claptrap being driven by the globalist green lobby to make us all poorer.”
While username Virago said: “Why worry? Life is too short. There is nothing this country can do but ruin its economy chasing the impossible.”
However, some readers did express concern about the threat of climate change.
Username Joolsaria said: “Yes! For my great grandchildren’s sake.”
And username Reactor said: “Concerned about climate change – yes. Even more concerned about the effects of the zero carbon hysteria.”
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