Are Politicians Taking The Climate Crisis Seriously Enough?

In this week's Commons People podcast, HuffPost UK looks at how green action has fallen down the agenda – even as Britain faces an unprecedented heatwave.

Political Correspondent

An inescapable heatwave has swept across the UK in the last week.

Temperatures have soared to a shocking 35C, breaking previous May records set in 1922 and 1944 by a full 2C.

As the regular weather pattern known as El Niño was already scheduled to warm up the globe this year, perhaps it should not be a surprise.

But that overlooks how temperatures in the UK have been climbing in recent years. Who can forget the staggering heat of summer 2022?

Experts have repeatedly warned the government that Britain needs to adapt to its new status as a hot country.

Extreme heatwaves, along with droughts and floods, are all becoming much more common and expected to only get worse.

The world has already warmed up by about 1.4C compared to before the industrial era when humans started burning fossil fuels en........

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