Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/15/the-guardian-view-on-july-weather-here-comes-the-dangerously-hot-sun

Reports of record-breaking heat are made more alarming by the possibility of a prime minister who wants to weaken climate goals

Fri 15 Jul 2022 13.30 EDT

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There is no point denying that in the UK many people enjoy themselves when the weather is unusually warm, even as many others feel uncomfortable and in some casesunsafe, due both to the heat itself and what it signals about global heating. Spells of hot weather make sun-lovers feel they have been transplanted to the Mediterranean – where many of us take our holidays. Even now,record-breaking temperaturesare still sometimes welcomed, rather than feared as a harbinger of more extreme dangers ahead.

That said, few will welcome the Met Office issuing its first ever “red warning”…