Met Office Heatwave Death Claim Was Fake News

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Met Office Heatwave Death Claim Was Fake News
August 6, 2026
 
By Paul Homewood
 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/world/europe/heat-europe-excess-death-fire.html

According to the New York Times:

 Europeans are being crushed by deadly temperatures.

Record-breaking heatwaves across much of the continent have claimed thousands of lives and created a perfect storm for destructive wildfires, as The New York Times reports.

A staggering number of these deaths, experts urge, are linked to climate change. Britain’s national weather agency, Met Office, said that of the 2,700 deaths in England and Wales believed to be the result of extreme heat so far this season — and we’re barely halfway through summer — around 42 percent were likely the result of the “human-caused” climate change.

“However, it is clear that human-caused climate change is leading to more frequent and more intense summer heatwaves,” said Mark McCarthy, Met Office’s manager of climate attribution, in a statement. “This intensification is driving many impacts, including those affecting human health and mortality and other issues, such as agriculture, effects on transport infrastructure and biodiversity.”

In addition to the thousands of deaths in England and Wales, France has estimated that roughly a thousand excess deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations were caused by extreme heat, while Germany announced last week that its unprecedented temperatures have so far been linked to about 5,100 deaths.

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Heat waves in Europe are nothing new, and the actual temperature readings, taken in constant locations and unfiltered through goal-seeking computer models, do not show a significant change during the past century.
 
Also: a rather large number of heat-related deaths in Europe are due to state-mandated bans on air conditioning.

About 20 percent of homes in Europe have air conditioning. In Britain and Germany, the number is only about 5-6%. By way of contrast, 90% of U.S. homes have air conditioning.