Each year, the 23-degree tilt of the planet we live on causes seasons to
change as it orbits the Sun. We also know that on top of this regime,
heat is moderated, and sometimes intensified by particular weather
systems, to create ‘heatwaves’. For most of history, people had no
explanation for either seasonal change or differences between a season
from one year to the next, or even one week to the next. Now we do have
explanations for such things, yet some people are still surprised to
discover each year that we in Britain, at roughly 53 degrees latitude,
occasionally experience weather that some find uncomfortable. Even more
remarkably, and despite these explanations, some people think that
warmer temperatures are a harbinger of doom. They are ‘extreme weather
events’, such voices claim, and they are ‘getting more frequent and
intense’, and soon they will rip society from its foundations – just you
watch. But what is ‘extreme weather’, and is it really capable of
destroying civilisation?...<<<
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