GLOBAL WARMING c.1968 : 550 COLLAPSE AT WIMBLEDON FROM THE HEAT
54 years ago this week (July 1968) back when CO2 was at ‘safe’ levels - London was experiencing such an intense heat wave that the Tower Bridge became stuck and 550 tennis fans at Wimbledon collapsed from the heat.
At the same time in Wales, fist-size hailstones smashed windows and car windshields, while a freak downpour caused severe flooding at the village of Aberfan where 116 children and 28 adults were buried in 1966 following torrential rain.
Thankfully today we are so much safer from such climatic extremes.
But just imagine if 550 tennis fans collapsed from the heat at Wimbledon this year - global warming would be blamed for sure with demands we return CO2 back to the same levels of 1966 when the same thing happened.
Update : This week in 2022, spectators at Wimbledon will need a warm jacket with maximum temp expected on Thursday at 15C