Ed Hawkins

The summer of 1976: putting a very hot & dry summer into context

50 years on, the summer of 1976 is often misused by those wanting to downplay the risks from climate change as it still holds a small, but reducing, number of temperature records.

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The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them

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Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves

The recent reductions in aerosol emissions have acted to unmask the warming that was already caused by past greenhouse gas emissions

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How much warmer than normal was the UK over the last two days?

If you're wondering whether we need a new colour scale... you're not wrong.

Maps show anomalies of daily maximum temperatures, relative to 1991-2020.

Based on HadUK-Grid dataset and produced by the @metoffice NCIC

We recreated the legendary heatwave summer of 1976 in today’s climate – here’s what we found

theconversation.com/we-recreated-t…