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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Dr Clair Barnes: no photograph is held, so the academic plate is shown instead.
Academic
Dr Clair Barnes
statistician at Imperial College London investigating the impacts of climate change on extreme weather
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press citations on 1 topic since 26 Aug 2026 · last quoted 3 Nov 2026
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Dr Clair Barnes: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- statistician at Imperial College London investigating the impacts of climate change on extreme weather
- Quoted on
- Public health & prevention
- Tracked press citations
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 3 Nov 2026
- First quoted
- 26 Aug 2026
04 The signal · where Dr Clair Barnes sits on public health & prevention
Ranked 59= of 100 voices quoted in the press on public health & prevention, level with 26 others on 4 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Sir Chris WhittyRegulatorChief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government, Department of Health and Social Care39 - 2Anya GopfertClinicianConsultant in public health, UKHSA35
- 3
Prof Meghana PanditRegulatorDeputy Chief Executive Officer (NHS England) / Chief Executive Officer (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)17 - 59=Renu BindraAcademicDeputy director, All Hazards Public Health Response, UKHSA4
- 59=Earim ChaudryClinicianDr, chief medical officer at Voy4
- 59=Dr Clair BarnesAcademicstatistician at Imperial College London investigating the impacts of climate change on extreme weather4
- 59=Sean SempleAcademicProfessor, University of Stirling4
- 59=Professor Abdul RazaqAcademicDirector of Public Health for Blackburn with Darwen4
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05 On the record · press
What Dr Clair Barnes has said
By outlet · linked articles
- ft.com1
- independent.co.uk1
- theecologist.org1
- theguardian.com1
Where Dr Clair Barnes has been quoted
- 01European summer 'deadliest' for heatwavestheecologist.org · 3 Nov 2026
- 02Summer heatwave linked to 50,000 deaths in Europeft.com · 23 Oct 2026
- 03Europe suffers deadliest summer on record, new study findsindependent.co.uk · 22 Oct 2026
- 04‘National scandal’: extreme heat linked to 40,000 deaths in England between 1988 and 2025theguardian.com · 26 Aug 2026
Verbatim
“I think we can be quite confident in stating that the summer of 2026 is likely to have been the worst on record for heat-related mortality across much of Europe.”
“These numbers are a stark reminder that our hotter, more extreme summers are having an increasingly severe impact on public health.”
“These numbers are a stark reminder that our hotter, more extreme summers are having an increasingly severe impact on public health.”
“We now face the very real prospect of heat deaths overtaking those that occur on the coldest days. As this summer has made abundantly clear, the risk from extreme heat is a fast growing problem that will only worsen without further action to reduce emissions and provide cooling.”
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