How unusual is this UK heat and is climate change to blame?
How unusual is this UK heat and is climate change to blame?
Scientists are clear that global warming is making heatwaves like this hotter and more likely.
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It’s called summer and it happens every year. Why does the UK pretend summer doesn’t exist?
No, I’m not denying climate change.
June in London looks pretty atypical.
Appreciated, and I understand a dry heat is more pleasant than a swamp and that the UK doesn’t have AC by default. But I mean very specifically that Brits will seem surprised every year that June is hotter than May. You suggest they get A/C and they say “nah, it’s just a heat wave, innit?”
It’s a three or four month long “heat wave” and it happens every year.
Now that heat pumps are becoming a norm, air conditioning will become a moot point. But for real, for us, we'd get like two days of summer and it would rain for three months straight, hence the reluctance to invest. It's only thanks to climate change that we're now getting sustained heat. This is genuinely a novelty to us.