HEATWAVE BRITAIN: WHY ARE POLITICIANS SO SLOW TO ACT? – PODCAST

As another summer of extreme heat rumbles on, warnings about excess deaths, ageing infrastructure and potential food shortages are growing louder. So how well prepared is the UK to cope, both now and in the years ahead?

Climate crisis | The Guardian reports that as another summer of extreme heat rumbles on, warnings about excess deaths, ageing infrastructure and potential food shortages are growing louder.

The report adds: So how well prepared is the UK to cope, both now and in the years ahead?

Jessica Elgot and Alexandra Topping examine why politicians have been so slow to act.

This report is covered across the current DAMMNEWS feeds. Science and weather reports need scale and time context. A single measurement or forecast is not the same as a confirmed long-term trend.

This is a developing report. DAMMNEWS will surface related coverage as closely matched reporting enters the live cache.

DAMMNEWS RSS BRIEFING — generated locally from the available Climate crisis | The Guardian headline and RSS excerpt. It is not a summary of the full source article.