ECHOES OF THE LAST MIND

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The hot spells might feel ages ago, but the Met Office has been totalling up the year and it’s looking like 2025 could sneak past the UK’s current heat record

The Met Office has projected that 2025 has edged towards a new UK heat record, with scientists having warned that human-driven warming is making these years harder to dismiss as flukes.

People tend to treat mention of a “hottest year on record” like it’s a freak event. The problem is it keeps happening, and the gaps between records are getting shorter by the year.

And it’s happened again. The Met Office has just announced that 2025 is on course to be the UK’s hottest year since records began, with climate change continuing to push temperatures higher.

With just over a week still to go, the average UK air temperature across the year is tracking at about 10.05C, which would edge past the current record of 10.03C from 2022. What’s more, a leading government climate adviser has basically said this is what the future looks like.

“This is our future,