As temperatures start to rise again over the weekend, many parts of England and Wales will enter into the fifth heatwave of the year, as Simon King explains
Didn’t know the first one ended, let alone the fourth.
In the 50 years since the record-breaking heatwave of 1976, scientists say that the influence of human-induced climate change means that should similar weather patterns occur again we could expect our weather to be much hotter.
BBC Weather is the department that prepares forecasts, advice, and occasional explainers about weather - the practical aspects in the immediate term, but not really long-term trends or mechanisms. It is not part of BBC News.
BBC News has its own Climate desk, with a Climate Editor. It frequently reports on human-influenced climate change.
Paragraph 2 of the Fifth story down on the BBC News front page at this precise moment. Lawks.
The Weather section is, unsurprisingly, concerned mainly with weather rather than climate. However:
Are we in for a summer of serial heatwaves?
How hot a 1976-style heatwave would be today
Followed by “But…”
And then spends the rest of the article talking about cigarettes and BBQs instead of why the country is as dry as a tinderbox.
There’s no explanation of climate, only “those bad autistic criminals throwing cigarettes around”.
Like I said, they deny without outright denying.
Again, its a weather section, they aren’t the ones dealing with climate.
The article you linked isn’t in the weather section.
And if weather isn’t affected by climate then what is?..
BBC Weather is the department that prepares forecasts, advice, and occasional explainers about weather - the practical aspects in the immediate term, but not really long-term trends or mechanisms. It is not part of BBC News.
BBC News has its own Climate desk, with a Climate Editor. It frequently reports on human-influenced climate change.