Britain must acclimatise to heatwaves – and fast | Extreme heat

Call me to kill, but I agree with Zoe Williams (Why do we claim that heat waves are enjoyable – and ignore brutal and burning reality? June 23). It is not only that I am red, faded with fair skin, freckles, teligu and the need to protect the worker 50. I enjoy the warmth of my bones like anyone else. Today, the world is more hot than it was when you were a child. I am now 68 years old, and the science was expected A more hot climate For many years. People around the world death Because they are heating.

Does anyone care? The opportunity to build is missed in human-focused solutions to warm-for example, in urban housing and to vulnerable people, so we are incredibly prepared for the human tragedy that scientists expect. I am worried about my children and my grandchildren. What kind of world do we build?

It is one thing to build in public advertisements on how people remain in heat – clear things like sunscreen moisturizing and closing curtains. the Physiological community road map To deal with climate change points, the way for multidisciplinary methods to find solutions to policy and infrastructure makers, but I am afraid that the current focus on mitigating warmth means that heat -related challenges are ignored in the long run.
Dr. Laura M. Jennisi
Yaxham, Norfolk

While many England were swinging in light of the warnings of the amber, another crisis intensifies quietly: forest fires have become at the speedy climatic emergency in Britain. Indeed this year, More than 560 forest fires It was recorded in England and Wales – a height of seven times in the same period in 2024. of the burnt quagmire to highway cases, the fire sets extend to the collapse point. Many fires are caused by eliminated barbecue parties, cigarettes or full glass – small works with severe consequences. Wooden lands and forests, biomedon faces and havens are destroyed for biological diversity, acre with acre.

However, we do not have a national wild fire strategy. There is no fixed ban on open fires during high risk periods. Firefighting services, which were cut to the bone, are left to improvise in the face of this new natural. This is no longer the problem of the Mediterranean. Without an urgent national action, the UK will face a cycle of summer hell. The ministers must restore funding for firefighting services, enter a source ban during alerts and establish a response plan for the properly designed wilderness. Anything less is contentment with the climate.
Anthony David Davis
Schrussbury, Sharbeshire

The way the media provides positively hot and very dangerous weather using words such as “Beautiful Day” and “Beautiful sunny day” angry with me. Such descriptions are the provisions of personal value and must remain outside objective reports. All that can be said objectively is that it is hot. It fights my immune system in order to overcome heat due to the drug to help prevent breast cancer. High temperatures and humidity make me stressful and forced to search for a shelter inside. I yearn for more benign weather, the days when I can go in my normal life without forcing to withdraw until it passes.

The bilateral view of that hot weather equals good and cold/wet weather is badly equal in light of the current climate challenges if we want to put any opportunity to persuade everyone to do their own to protect the environment.
Helen People
Stamford, Lincolnchy