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‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says
The UK's climatic extremes are becoming more common, with 2025 being the hottest year on record and the last four years among the top five hottest. The annual State of the UK Climate report attributes these changes to carbon pollution in the atmosphere.
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