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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jonathan Watts

The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them

A person in a hat stands in a misty, sunlit alley near a coffee shop
People stand in front of a coffee shop during a heatwave in Nice. There has been a big change in the climate in recent decades. Photograph: Valéry Hache/AFP/Getty Images

Some people – and media organisations – still have difficulty connecting the heatwaves currently gripping much of the world and human-caused climate chaos. Others are in outright denial. So how to address their evasions, distractions and lies?

The Guardian has trawled through climate sceptics’ claims and put their doubts to one of the UK’s top climate scientists, Prof Ed Hawkins at the University of Reading.

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