🌿 Environment Jul 24, 2026 · Robert McSweeney

Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution

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Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution
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This summer has seen Europe suffer through a series of record-breaking heatwaves.



Amid widespread media coverage of the number of deaths and the influence of climate change, the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported on new research with the incorrect headline: “Heatwaves caused by fall in pollution.”



The article was shared on social media by Richard Tice – deputy leader of the hard-right, climate-sceptic Reform UK party – along with a number of prominent rightwing commentators.



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