Image: ShutterstockWith the advent of more and more heatwaves, climate pressures could make devolved government a necessity rather than a choiceBy Doug SpechtAndy Burnham wants to move power north. That is the uncomfortable message from this summer’s extreme heat in London. In that story, moving power north is an act of deliberate reform: changing institutions, devolving budgets, creating a ‘Number 10 North’ in Manchester as a second centre of government. He wants to pull power north as a matter of design, with explicit institutional changes and a rebalanced distribution of authority. An event about extreme heat, cancelled because of extreme heat, offers a neat image of climate impacts bouncing back into the machinery designed to discuss them.