{"id":3358,"date":"2018-08-03T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/refresh.ealingfoe.org.uk\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2020-12-17T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T12:53:47","slug":"heatwaves-in-the-uk-a-matter-of-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/heatwaves-in-the-uk-a-matter-of-life-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwaves in the UK a Matter of Life and Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3358\" class=\"elementor elementor-3358\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-58a43bfb elementor-reverse-tablet elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"58a43bfb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-39836685\" data-id=\"39836685\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12c0b240 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"12c0b240\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Climate change now a matter of life and death<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5523bd4b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5523bd4b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMPs on Parliament\u2019s Environment Audit (EAC) have warned \u201chigher temperatures which caused 2,000+ deaths in 2003 will be summer norm by the 2040s, making adaptation to heatwaves a matter of life and death.\u201d\n\nThe Met Office has projected that UK summer temperatures could regularly reach 38.5\u00b0C by the 2040s.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6dae4083 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"6dae4083\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-md\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/video\/2018\/jun\/27\/timelapse-footage-shows-huge-fire-at-saddleworth-moor-video\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Fire at Saddleworth Moor<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-58011d3e\" data-id=\"58011d3e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1743c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c1743c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/video\/2018\/jun\/27\/timelapse-footage-shows-huge-fire-at-saddleworth-moor-video\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fire-at-Saddleworth-Moor-20180627.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3360\" alt=\"The Guardian - Fire at Saddleworth Moor\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fire-at-Saddleworth-Moor-20180627.png 1400w, https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fire-at-Saddleworth-Moor-20180627-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fire-at-Saddleworth-Moor-20180627-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fire-at-Saddleworth-Moor-20180627-768x439.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-49f93e6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"49f93e6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-53b4d5e\" data-id=\"53b4d5e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e11f04f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e11f04f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Press release from Ealing Friends of the Earth - 03\/08\/2018<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6c672ec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6c672ec\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wider\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-84b4b3c\" data-id=\"84b4b3c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fddedf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7fddedf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Councils need to take note &#8211; climate change now a matter of life and death.\u00a0<\/p><p>MPs on Parliament\u2019s Environment Audit Committee (EAC) have warned that \u201chigher temperatures which caused 2,000+ deaths in 2003 will be summer norm by 2040s, making adaptation to heatwaves a matter of life and death.\u201d The Met Office has projected that UK summer temperatures could regularly reach 38.5\u00b0C by the 2040s. [note 1]<\/p><p>The report could not have been more timely, given the heat wave currently hitting England.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>Mary Creagh MP, Chair of the EAC, said: \u201cHeatwaves cause premature deaths from cardiac, kidney and respiratory disease. There will be 7,000 heat-related deaths every year in the UK by 2050 if the Government does not take action.\u201d<\/p><p>Especially worrying is the fact that this heat wave is worldwide. Our last major heatwave in Britain was in 1976, but then it was quite cool elsewhere. But this time we see temperatures of 52\u00b0C in Death Valley, California, 51\u00b0C in Algeria and even 30\u00b0C in northern Siberia.<\/p><p>Scientists differ on whether the current global rash of heatwaves is definitely caused by climate change. But all agree that future heatwaves will be hotter and more frequent thanks to carbon emissions. [note 2]<\/p><p>Nic Ferriday of Ealing Friends of the Earth commented: \u201cWhile Mary Creagh and a handful of MPs on EAC may be concerned, it seems that the vast majority of MPs just don\u2019t want to know about climate change. They support policies that will make climate change even worse &#8211;<\/p><ul><li>fracking across the UK [note 3],<\/li><li>opposition to wind farms [note 4] and<\/li><li>poor design of new housing.<\/li><\/ul><p>Ealing MPs Steve Pound and Virendra Sharma support Heathrow expansion, which will massively increase UK emissions of greenhouse gases, leading to even worse climate change.\u201d<\/p><p>Nic added \u201cIt is not only MPs who are ignoring climate change. Hot weather is an especial problem in London where the \u2018heat island\u2019 effect makes things even worse. But councils such as Ealing are doing virtually nothing to address the problem \u2013 one can barely find mention of it on the council web site and there is no mention of climate in the responsibilities of any Ealing cabinet member. [note 5]<\/p><p>Climate change is now the biggest issue on earth and it is high time our MPs and councils step up to the plate and provide leadership on this issue.\u201d<\/p><p>Contact: Nic Ferriday, 07873 388453<\/p><p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p><ol><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/environmental-audit-committee\/news-parliament-2017\/heatwaves-report-publication-17-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Parliament Heatwaves Report 2017<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-44956310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regular heatwaves &#8216;will kill thousands&#8217; &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li><li>Fracking is a destructive method of getting oil or gas out of rocks, thereby increasing burning of fossil fuels and increasing climate-changing emissions (mainly carbon dioxide &#8211; CO2).<\/li><li>Wind energy (also solar) is a \u201crenewable\u201d source of energy which does not emit climate-changing gases.<\/li><li>Ealing council committee paper \u2018Proposed changes to the council\u2019s constitution\u2019; 22\/05\/18.<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change now a matter of life and death MPs on Parliament\u2019s Environment Audit (EAC) have warned \u201chigher temperatures which caused 2,000+ deaths in 2003 will be summer norm by the 2040s, making adaptation to heatwaves a matter of life and death.\u201d The Met Office has projected that UK summer temperatures could regularly reach 38.5\u00b0C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actions-and-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ealingfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}