The UK needs to urgently adapt to a future with more heatwaves, climate change experts have said.
Dr Friederike Otto, a senior lecturer at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, said the soaring temperatures across the country would not have been as high without global warming. "Every heatwave we are experiencing now has been made more frequent, longer and hotter because of climate change," she told the PA news agency.
"Of course, every extreme weather event has also an element of just the chaotic natural variability of the weather system. There would have been high temperatures without climate change, but they would not have been as high as what we will see - no matter what exactly we will see, we know for sure it would have been cooler without climate change."
