Met Office

UK sees annual temperatures average more than 10C for first time.

Heat stress – a combination of dangerous heat and humidity – currently affects 68 million people globally.

Met Office says future downpours and summer heat will exceed extreme weather already seen in the UK.

Climate breakdown resulted a new reported record high Arctic temperature of 38C at Verkhoyansk, Russia this June.

'We are going to see 1.5ºC. We haven’t even seen everything that 1.1ºC has thrown at us yet.'

World Meteorological Organisation: 20 percent chance annual temperatures will exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels during next five years.

Climate change caused by human activity is already pushing the mercury to new record highs.

England has seen its driest May on record and Wales its second driest in records stretching back to 1862.

Carbon dioxide atmosphere levels will rise 2.7 parts per million this year reaching 414 parts per million.

Comprehensive science review carried out in light of devastating Australian and Brazilian blazes confirmed that climate change increases the risk of wildfires.

The Met Office confirms 2010 to 2019 is second hottest and second wettest decade in the country over the past 100 years.

The top 10 hottest years are (in order): 2014; 2006; 2011; 2007; 2017; 2003; 2018; 2004; 2002; and 2005.

The World Weather Attribution group found extreme heat today is at least 10 times more likely than in 1900.

As US climatologists and scientists are urging the world that greenhouse gas emissions be curbed rapidly to prevent runaway global warming, the UK Met Office appears to be back pedalling on human induced climate change. Peter Bunyard reports on some mixed messages