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

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The UK Climate report reveals the last four years rank among the hottest on record, with 2025 being the hottest year ever recorded in the UK. The findings highlight unprecedented changes driven by carbon pollution, normalizing climatic extremes.

Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record The UK’s climatic extremes are becoming increasingly normal, a report has found, with last year the hottest on record and further “unprecedented changes” likely to break the record again soon. Data stretching back to 1884 shows the UK has never experienced a year as hot as 2025, according to the annual State of the UK Climate report, with temperatures pushed to dizzying heights by carbon pollution clogging the atmosphere. Continue reading...