GREEN activists urged politicians to get serious about climate change today as Scotland remained on track for one of the warmest summers on record.

Friends of the Earth Scotland director Dr Richard Dixon said the meteorological record showed “a very clear long-term trend” of increasing temperatures in Scotland in line with the scientific consensus on climate change.

But Dr Dixon warned climate change would bring not just warmer temperatures in general but “increasingly unpredictable weather” such as floods, storms and droughts.

“We should heed the warnings the weather is giving us because things will get much worse if the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at the current rate. 

“Scotland has great ambitions on reducing climate emissions, but we need to work harder on meeting our own targets,” he said.