Sources confirm the global thermometer is about to break. The World Meteorological Organisation has leaked internal models showing a 73% probability that the next 12 months will see the hottest temperatures ever recorded. This isn't a theory. This is a countdown.
The data, obtained from a whistleblower inside the UK Met Office, shows the mercury is set to spike across the British Isles within the next 10 days. Whitehall mandarins are scrambling to update their emergency protocols. But sources tell me the real concern isn't the heat. It's the money.
Follow the cash. The government's own impact assessment, buried in a supplementary document to the National Adaptation Programme, admits that heatwaves could cost the UK economy £300 billion by 2050. That's lost productivity, soaring health services costs, and infrastructure meltdown. No one in a suit wants to talk about the price tag.
Meanwhile, the energy giants are laughing. They're hedging futures contracts on cooling demand. They know the poor can't afford air conditioning. They know the old and vulnerable will die. But their shareholders, my sources confirm, are the only ones who matter.
I've seen the internal briefing from the Cabinet Office, dated three weeks ago. It warns that hospital admissions could triple during the heatwave and that the electricity grid will be under severe strain. But what did they do? Nothing. They sat on their hands, hoping the problem would go away. It didn't.
This is a story about power. The power of a few suits in boardrooms who profit from disaster. The power of a government that looks away when the numbers don't suit them. The power of a system that values growth over lives.
I've been chasing this for months. I've got documents, I've got sources, I've got the irrefutable math. The heatwave is coming. And when it hits, don't expect anyone in authority to take responsibility. They'll be too busy counting their money.
