England's heat crisis is an emergency that demands immediate action. Heatwaves are projected to exceed 40°C across the U.K. by 2050, potentially killing 10,000 or more people annually, and nine in 10 homes are likely to overheat. Air conditioning in care homes, hospitals and schools is increasingly a matter of survival. Every year of inaction drives the cost of failure higher.
The heat panic machine is running at full speed, churning out amber alerts and doomsday headlines over what used to be called a warm bank holiday. The Met Office is logging record temps at a backyard weather station wedged next to a sun-trapping wood and manufacturing hysteria in the process. Britain survived 1976's two-month scorcher without a single government warning, and it'll survive this just fine.
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