BBC Countryfile Magazine

WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

The 10 warmest days in the UK since records began in 1884 have all occurred since 2002
10% of greenhouse gas emissions are caused by food and farming

Our climate is changing – something that is now impossible to deny. The 10 warmest days in the UK since records began in 1884 have all occurred since 2002. The past 30 years have been, on average, 0.8°C hotter than the 30 years before that.

The changing weather patterns are affecting Britain’s farms. In many places – especially a broad stripe from south-west, across central England to the north-east – it was a very wet autumn. Fields became lakes, brooks became rivers and many woodlands resembled a Louisiana swamp. Even where standing water was absent, the ground was so soggy that some

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