Renew Extra Weekly

 The heatwave across Europe over the last month, with temperatures reaching 40 C and more, had a big impact and seems consistent with what might expect from climate change . The record-breaking temperatures recorded over Europe would have been ‘virtually impossible’ 50 years ago, according to the World Weather Attribution service, with climate change being ‘unequivocally to blame’. It certainly is worrying , with  the excess death statistics across Europe rising- including over 1000 in initial reports from France and up to 900 reported in Spain , all this being coupled with huge economic disruption costs. It’s still continuing as I write.  And we are likely to see more regularly repeated extreme heatwave episodes like in the years ahead, with even higher peak temperatures – and with the impacts of rising heat in some parts of the word already being much more severe than in Europe. In India especially.   In addition, there are the other impacts of global clim...