{"id":5954,"date":"2026-05-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:47:16","slug":"wales-could-face-disease-carrying-mosquitoes-and-thousands-of-heat-deaths-by-2050-if-temperatures-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5954","title":{"rendered":"Wales could face disease-carrying mosquitoes and thousands of heat deaths by 2050 if temperatures soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN:  https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s climate advisers have warned that Wales faces deadly heatwaves, disease-carrying mosquitoes and a sharp rise in flooding unless the new Welsh government acts fast<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/draft-wales-could-face-disease-carrying-mosquitoes-and-thousands-of-heat-deaths-by-2050-if-temperatures-soar-1779869600210.webp\" data-image=\"beb1wo1eze3z\" alt=\"Climate experts have warned that Wales could face escalating heat deaths, disease-carrying mosquitoes and longer extreme weather events without urgent adaptation measures\" title=\"Climate experts have warned that Wales could face escalating heat deaths, disease-carrying mosquitoes and longer extreme weather events without urgent adaptation measures\">Climate experts have warned that Wales could face escalating heat deaths, disease-carrying mosquitoes and longer extreme weather events without urgent adaptation measures<\/figure>\n<p>Wales recorded its warmest summer on record in 2025, and its hottest day ever was three years before that,when Hawarden in Flintshire hit a massive 37.1\u00b0C. In fact, all ten of the country&#8217;s hottest years on record have come since the start of the 2000s. <\/p>\n<p>In light of that, a fresh study conducted by the independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) has set out what such a trajectory means for the decades ahead, and it&#8217;s pushed for the new Welsh government to treat adaptation as &#8220;urgent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Under a worst-case scenario of 4\u00b0C global warming by 2100, the report says the UK could see up to 18,000 heat-related deaths a year and that parts of Wales would start seeing mosquitoes capable of carrying disease. What&#8217;s more, heatwaves lasting a week or more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN: https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/ The UK&#8217;s climate advisers have warned that Wales faces deadly heatwaves, disease-carrying mosquitoes and a sharp rise in flooding unless the new Welsh government acts fast Climate experts have warned that Wales could face escalating heat deaths, disease-carrying mosquitoes and longer extreme weather events without urgent adaptation measures Wales recorded its warmest summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5956,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions\/5956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}