In the midst of a cold snap - a hot weather warning
As temperatures stay stubbornly well below freezing, it may feel like the last issue on anyone's mind, but the government has been warned it may need to start thinking about introducing emergency hot weather payments to help poorer households keep cool.
The Department for Work and Pensions is studying a specially commissioned report from the Met Office which concludes that the weather may become so hot that Britain's poor and elderly people may need state help to pay their summer energy bills as they reach for air conditioners to prevent themselves dying from heat exhaustion.
The Met Office said yesterday: "We may be going through probably the coldest spell since 1996, but it is probably a bigger medium-term problem that we are going to see some very hot summers, of the kind we saw in 2003 and 2006."
The report was completed last year, the Met said, and was one of a number of studies undertaken, including for energy companies, so they could prepare for high summer energy demand fuelled by air conditioners.
The Met Office has argued that summers as hot as 2003 could happen every other year by 2050, as a result of climate change.
The 2003 heatwave led to the death of 15,000 people in France and there were 2,000 heat-related deaths in the UK...
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hot weather here
now that is a miracle
Hey, I remember the summer of '03.
Back then, those were the days.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
upon the return of Isa (a.s), will the lack of water not inflict humanity ?
2/3rds of the world's surface is covered with water. Pure/sweet water may be a rare thing, but there will always be water. Unless its all used in fusion reactions to produce... lead.
Do you have a reference for the lack of water thing?
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.