Climate change worsened Australian heatwave: comment

Commenting on analysis showing that climate change made the intense early January heatwave in Australia five times more likely [1], Gareth Redmond-King, Head of International Programme at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: "Fuelled by searing heat made five times more likely by climate change, these wildfires are a stark reminder of how worsening climate change impacts are threatening to render places unable to grow food, and uninhabitable for people and nature.

"Our only scientific solution to halting climate change and averting ever more dangerous and costly harm is cutting our polluting emissions to net zero. Without it, as the UK’s own national security assessment has just warned [2], our food security is under threat. The UK will continue to see harvests like last year’s - the second worst on record [3] - and nations around the world from which we import two fifths of our food will see more and more crops failing; impacts that are already driving up food prices everywhere."