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Forget About Nuclear War, Hot Weather Is Biggest Disaster, Say Standard
January 18, 2025
By Paul Homewood
 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-heatwave-temperature-climate-change-b1205478.html

The Cabinet Office has updated its National Risk Register, something they do each year and which is intended to show preparedness for the range of major risks the UK faces.

The report is 187 pages long, and includes threats like terrorism, cyber attack, chemical and nuclear attacks, collapse of banking systems, war, major disasters, power grid collapse, earthquake, pandemics and foot and mouth.

But The Standard thinks that hot weather for a day or two is the biggest risk of all:


London could frazzle in temperatures of more than 40°C as the planet warms, the Government is warning.

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Re: Forget About Nuclear War, Hot Weather Is Biggest Disaster, Say Standard
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2025, 07:26:48 am »
I think the stupidity of climate zealots is a bigger issue! :tongue2:
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. " -- Ariel Durant