England is set to swelter through hot years - Andrew King

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ndrew King writes in The Conversation that “England’s set to swelter through a rash of record hot years”.

The Climate Extremes Research Fellow at University of Melbourne writes: “Last year was probably the hottest on record worldwide.

“On regional and local scales, 2014 also broke many records. Across Europe as a whole, and in 19 individual European countries, it was the warmest year recorded.

“The Central England Temperature series – the longest instrumental temperature record in the world, extending all the way back to 1659 – also experienced its warmest year last year,” he says.