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How likely would Britain’s 40°C heatwave have been without climate change?

By Ben Clarke, University of Oxford; Friederike Otto, Imperial College London, and Luke Harrington, University of Waikato Every heatwave occurring today is made more likely and intense by human-caused climate change. Early estimates by the UK Met Office suggest that days over 40°C have become ten times more likely to happen in the UK as a result of the rising global temperature. But even this … Continue reading How likely would Britain’s 40°C heatwave have been without climate change?