Robert Mcsweeney
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Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution (opens the original)
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This summer has seen Europe suffer through a series of record-breaking heatwaves. Amid widespread media coverage of the number of… The post Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution - Carbon Brief (opens the original)
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This summer has seen Europe suffer through a series of record-breaking heatwaves. Amid widespread media coverage of the number of deaths and the influence of climate change, the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported on new research with the incorrect headline: “Heatwaves caused by fall in pollution.” The article was shared on social media by Richard Tice – deputy leader of the hard-right, climate-sceptic Reform UK party – along with a number of prominent rightwing commentators. Tice claimed that “net st
Cited 7 July 2026: ‘Impossible’ heat | Global ocean record | Climate change and the ozone hole - Carbon Brief (opens the original)
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‘HEAT ALERT’: At least 25 people died as a “heat dome” smothered the eastern half of the US, reported the Guardian, with more than 20 states under “stifling temperatures more than 100F (38C)”. More than 140 million people were under heat alerts, the outlet said, with dead bodies found in “homes with no air conditioning, outside their residences, on the street and in parked cars”. Analysis by World Weather Attribution (WWA) found that the combined heat and humidity would have been “virtually impo
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