Britain has enjoyed the warmest period from January to July on record, the Met Office announced yesterday, as scientists warned that wearing sun cream in the sea could start a lethal chain reaction in the ocean’s food chains.
The past eight months have been both the hottest and the third wettest since the forecaster started keeping weather records in 1910. One climate expert said the figures showed that global warming was making its presence felt in the UK.
Bob Ward, policy and communications director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, said: “This should increase the urgency [for] UK politicians to join international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and take measures to make us