Britain’s scorching May and June heatwaves are thought to have claimed more than 2,700 lives, with almost half of those deaths fuelled by climate change.
A new study estimates that 550 people died during the exceptionally warm spell at the end of May, with a further 2,200 fatalities linked to the 10–day heatwave in June.
Researchers concluded that 42 per cent of the deaths were directly attributable to the extra heat caused by human–induced global warming.
They warned that the UK now experiences ‘dangerously hot summers’ that claim thousands of lives.
And unless something is urgently done to curb climate change, things are only
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