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Provisional data suggests the past summer has seen the warmest temperature since records began in 1884 in the UK, with the record heat 130 times more likely to have occurred due to human-induced climate change
Summer 2026 was the UK's hottest on record, with the extreme temperatures seen over the past three months made hundreds of times more likely by human-caused climate change, according to provisional data...
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