Climate change summers and

BRITAIN faces a future of hotter summers, warmer winters and coastal flooding if action isn’t taken to tackle climate change, the Met Office warned yesterday.

Its stark forecast was issued ahead of climate talks in Poland next week.

President Trump has made limiting greenhouse gas emissions harder by pulling America, one of the world’s biggest polluters, out of an international climate agreement.

The Met Office study predicted that without further action UK summer temperatures could be up to 5.4C hotter by 2070, while winters could be 4.2C warmer.

Within just 30 years the chances of summers being as hot as this year’s – the joint warmest on record – will be 50 per cent.

Sea levels in London could rise nearly 4ft by 2100, threatening extensive flooding.

Though average summer rainfall could decrease by up to 47 per cent by 2070, it could rise by up to 35 per cent in winter – the wettest season of all.

Met Office chief scientist Stephen Belcher said: “Heatwaves like the one in the summer of 2018 could be normal for the UK by mid-century.”

Environment Secretary Michael Gove said: “The UK is a global leader in tackling climate change, cutting emissions by more than 40 per cent since 1990 – but we must go further.”

However, Friends of the Earth said the Government was failing to go far enough. FoE climate campaigner Emi