Wondering what future British summers will be like, as the climate crisis unfolds? Clue: put away visions of sipping Yorkshire champagne on a Barcelona-style balcony. Think instead of stuffy, overheated homes making sleep impossible, droughts and floods that play havoc with infrastructure, and urgent health warnings for the old and very young.
“What we are facing is climate brutality. That is the reality of the hotter weather coming down the track,” says Simon McWhirter, the chief executive of the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC).
