UK's Met Office is reporting [1] that UK's sweltering summer was not only entirely unpleasant, but was also historically significant. To quote: "There has not been a hotter summer since records began in 1659 when Oliver Cromwell's son Richard resigned as Lor Protector of England and France and Spain ended their 24-year war."

Of course, the "junk scientists" will no doubt claim this as all very natural. However, when you consider a graph like this [2] , it drives home the fact that all of this has been predicted by the scientific community using mulitple lines of evidence (in this case 10 seperate peer-reviewed studies). And as if it hasn't been said enough, the heat felt in the UK is being attributed to our continued buring of fossil fuels, like coal, oil and gas.