A report published Aug. 8 on the website Watts Up With That said a claim attributed to Britain’s Met Office linking recent heatwave deaths to climate change was false. The report, titled “Met Office Heatwave Death Claim Was Fake News,” said the disputed figure had been previously cited by news outlets and social media users. [1] According to the report, the Met Office did not directly respond to requests for comment. The figure in question, an estimate of more than 2,700 heat-related deaths in England and Wales, circulated during a summer in which record temperatures were reported across the UK…

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