If you want to spend the sunny weather house-hunting in East London, you will be met with a stark message in one of the windows of a development alongside the A12. ‘Don’t buy these flats,’ it reads, ‘Too hot’. Residents complain of temperatures which do not fall below 27 Celsius even at four in the morning, leaving them feeling breathless and exhausted.

The government is fixating on stuffing homes with insulation and hermetically-sealing them to prevent heat loss. Come summer and it is frying people in their homes

And of course, it is all the fault of climate change. The Guardian – who else? – links to a study which claims that 10,000 of us are going to die every year as a result excess heat by the middle of this century due to rising temperatures. It is true that average summer temper

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