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The UK is getting hotter and wetter.

Extreme weather events are happening more often,

and that trend won't stop any time soon.

It all means more flooding and fire risk.

Enter the R word, resilience. How well are we coping with what's going on now and how advances our planning for what's coming? In the first of our

three-part mini-series, looking at how resilient the UK might be in dealing with potential future

crises, we're focusing on climate resilience.

Follow me now into the briefing room.

First, heat.

Joining me in the air-conditioned briefing room is Mark Maslin, Professor of Climatology at University College, London.

Mark Maslin, how much warmer has the UK got in recent decades?

The UK has got significantly warmer.

If we have a look at the last 50 years, the UK has warmed up by about 1.24 degrees Celsius.

And that's quite a large amount.

But it hasn't been uniform. So we've had about a quarter of a degree warming per decade. But in the last decade, it's about 0.4 degrees. So it has got much warmer. What's interesting is the last three years have been some of the warmest years on record. They're in the top five

warmest years that the UK have actually had. But what's interesting as well is that the hottest

days of summer have got even hotter. So it's not an even spread over the year? No, not at all. So we're

getting hot dry summers, warmer, wetter winters, but those extreme hot days in summer are becoming more common and warmer.

And let's think about it. We've had four heat waves in the last two months in the UK.

And that is not an experience which somebody like me who's on the wrong side of 60 grew up with.

No, none of us have. Can we just look at how localized or otherwise this heating is? I mean, does it

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