A panel of experts says Britain is losing the race to adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change, including worsening heat and floods.
In data from the last three decades, there is much less precipitation in the West, meaning more droughts for Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. Much of the country is getting warmer.LONDON -- Britain is losing the race to adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change, including worsening heat and floods, a government-appointed panel of experts said Wednesday.
It said the government’s pledge to cut planet-warming carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 — by embracing renewable energy, reducing pollution, planting trees and other measures — would not address the effects of climate change that are already underway. The report said average temperatures in the U.K. have risen 1.2 degrees Celsius since the mid-19th century and will increase by another 0.5% even with ambitious action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It said by 2050, Britain would see hotter, drier summers and wetter winters, with sea levels rising 10 to 30 centimeters higher than in 1981-2000.
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