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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Beament

Heatwaves ‘more frequent, longer and hotter’ due to climate change

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Climate change is pushing up sweltering summer temperatures, experts said as they warned that the UK needs to urgently adapt to a future with more heatwaves.

Dr Friederike Otto, a senior lecturer at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, said the soaring temperatures facing the UK would not have been as high without global warming.

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