An excellent reflection on the recent UK/Europe heatwave, El Niños and much more besides from my colleague @adriennebuller.bsky.social
John Merrick
What might it mean for increasingly routine climate extremes—baking heatwaves in homes without AC; destructive flooding; surging food prices—to collide with political parties that deny them, and economic systems ill-equipped to handle them?
This week, those of us in the UK and much of Europe have been sweltering in a record-shattering heatwave. In London, on Wednesday, temperatures reached 35.1 degrees Celsius, smashing the previous May…
