{"id":362716,"date":"2025-01-19T19:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362716"},"modified":"2025-01-19T19:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:11:38","slug":"forget-about-nuclear-war-hot-weather-is-biggest-disaster-say-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362716","title":{"rendered":"<\/font>Forget About Nuclear War, Hot Weather Is Biggest Disaster, Say\u00a0Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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<\/font>From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/font>By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/london-heatwave-temperature-climate-change-b1205478.html<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But The Standard thinks that hot weather for a day or two is the biggest risk of all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

London could frazzle in <\/em>temperatures<\/em><\/a> of more than 40\u00b0C as the planet warms, the Government is warning.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tube, rail and buses could be disrupted, tens of thousands more workers may stay at home, and water supplies could be hit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ministers raised the alarm over the dangers of soaring temperatures and global warming in its updated National Risk Register for 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 187-page document assesses the scale of the dangers, and likelihood of them happening, ranging from a terrorist attack, nuclear incident, riots, <\/em>cyber strikes,<\/em><\/a> wars and weather events, including in space.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A high temperature emergency was rated as having a \u201csignificant\u201d impact and a three out of five likelihood.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/london-heatwave-temperature-climate-change-b1205478.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow, I managed to survive the last hot day we had three years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":362717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691820674,691819103],"class_list":{"0":"post-362716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-extreme-heat","10":"tag-london","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/00heattemperat.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1wmg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":273587,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273587","url_meta":{"origin":362716,"position":0},"title":"Risk Registers, Huh! 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