(FINANCIAL TIMES) - It is hardly news any more that heat records are being broken every summer. We knew this would happen in a warming world - and so it has.
What is striking about the news coverage of the heatwave that has recently scorched parts of North America is a general hesitancy to link it to climate change. This is particularly galling when science has shown that every heatwave we experience is now made more intense by human-induced global warming. Every single one. Including last week's.
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