‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says

Per The Guardian's climate analysis, the UK's extreme weather is becoming increasingly normalized, with last year setting a troubling record. Twenty twenty-five was the hottest year on record in the UK—a distinction never reached in data stretching back to eighteen eighty-four. The warming is driven by carbon pollution accumulating in the atmosphere, and experts warn that further unprecedented heat records are likely to follow.

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