State of the UK Climate report: comment

"The UK’s latest climate report card makes for grim reading. After three heatwaves in a row, this comes as we learn 2,700 people died in the first two; over 1,000 as a direct result of the extra heat which would not have been there without climate change. [2]

"Our continued burning of oil and gas is making our climate ever more dangerous, not least through undermining our food security. Over recent years, our food prices have risen by 40% as extreme weather hits the two fifths of our food we import from overseas, and caused the second worst harvest at home. All of this continues getting worse until we cut our planet-heating emissions to net zero, which remains the only scientific solution to halting climate change, and limiting the danger in future years.

"The urgency is even greater this year, as El Niño intensifies in the Pacific, set to turbo-charge climate change, as it adds more heat to our climate system. We’re very likely heading through, and into, two of the hottest years we’ve ever experienced."