Dr Laurence Wainwright told the Mail that heatwaves are ‘now a creeping health, housing, and economic emergency that is costing families money they don't have.’
As temperatures in the UK reach dangerous levels, the government and businesses are pushing back at union proposals to set a maximum working temperature. "Because UK heatwaves are usually brief and intermittent, the population rarely has time to acclimatise to it physically," commented Dr Laurence Wainwright.
Heatwaves in the UK are becoming increasingly common. Dr Laurence Wainwright spoke to teaching magazine TES about what that means for learning.
MSc student Camila Llinás Restrepo writes about the ocean’s role in society and business, portraying the ocean as a living system that supports global ecological, economic, and social stability.
During the UK's scorching May heatwave, Dr Laurence Wainwright warned The Independent's readers that the UK will "perhaps be the worst impacted by the predicted hot, long summer ahead. The country, everything from its cities to air-con-less offices and homes through to train tracks that buckle in the heat and oft-heat-overwhelmed health system, simply isn’t designed for hot weather."
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Dr Laurence Wainwright revealed just how hot the UK could get if climate change isn't curbed.
"Overwhelming scientific evidence indicates that human-induced climate change is already, and will continue to, result in the UK getting hotter... Scientific modelling predicts that by 2070, summer temperatures in the UK will be on average 5°C hotter than today," he said.
Alexandria Procter was a succesful entrepreneur before she enrolled on the Oxford Smith School MSc, having founded her own company at just 22. Here, she discusses her journey as founder, experience on the programme and ambitions for the future.
MSc candidate and lawyer Ashima Gulati explores the impacts of India's warming climate on the country's schools and the policy interventions that could mitigate them.
During her time on the Smith School MSc, Hannah Sassi focused her dissertation on locally-led climate change adaptation – researching how communities in Kenya and South Africa responded to existential climate risks in ways that were deeply contextual and place-based.