Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeBritain could experience its first 40C day within a decade as the frequency of heatwaves increase, scientists have warned. According to Public Health England, the three heatwaves over last summer killed 2,556 people in England, with around 2,244 being over 65. Bob Ward, policy director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics, said: "The reality is that we are not set up for it in this country. Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, which advises the government, said these doomsday scenarios were not inevitable. The Met Office said in a 2020 study that 40C days in Britain could be as much as 10 times more likely in the current climate than under a natural climate unaffected by human influence.

Source: Daily Mirror July 26, 2021 03:52 UTC