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“…lowest level in 13 years owing to the slowdown in gas exports from Qatar, one of Europe’s biggest suppliers, and the increase in gas consumption over the summer to power refrigeration and cooling during the record heatwaves caused by the global climate…”

“Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, new research suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths.”

“Europe saw an abnormally early start to summer-like weather when a powerful heatwave boggled climate scientists in late May, and high heat continued even through September, the report found.”

“Buyers have delayed refilling storage facilities after a cold end to last winter, and extra gas power generation during the summer heatwaves, depleted stocks while oil and gas exports from the Gulf remain severely disrupted.”

“…as the global average, the Mediterranean and Black Seas have been plagued by record-breaking marine heatwaves – with elevated temperatures that persist deep below the surface – and bouts of extreme heat that have lasted more than a month, the scientists…”

““Unlike Kemi Badenoch, who thinks there wasn’t a problem with this summer’s heatwaves, we actually realise you have to take action on climate change and we’re leading that debate,” he said.”

“Fifty-two countries across all continents broke their seasonal temperature records for that period, according to an Agence France-Presse analysis of meteorological data from the European Copernicus programme.”