This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

Climate has been changing since before the Industrial revolution. It’s not all down to humans. Get a grip

But what about everyone on "6 figures"? They won't earn that in Scotland.

Absolutely moronic. No wonder we’re in the mess we’re in with this inane “just relax” attitude.

The problem is that (in the UK) we don’t seem to want to adapt. Other countries cope with what we call extreme (for us) weather but we just lurch every year through it.

we’ve been having rising temperatures for decades, so why aren’t we adapting? Air conditioning? Siestas? Houses built with extreme temperatures in mind? Nope, nothing changes, summer comes, we wring our hands.
we build on flood plains, don’t maintain river dredging (I live near the Somerset levels) and cover vast areas in concrete then wonder why we flood.

Just like the summers I remember as a child!
Getting home from school and going straight in the sea, also every day off from school was spent swimming!!!
yes I am in the UK!

Do you have dc? Or are you talking about people you don’t know

Wars, refugees and more. We live in a delicate ecobalance and we’re fucking up the planet for everyone and all the animals and plants too.

There will also be wars because of climate crisis. There already are.

It’s really not new at all. the Brit’s are famous for showing pics of temperatures in their cars and posting it on Facebook lol and taking temperatures in the sun but in the med it’s in the shade, all the time.

They never mention the whole of the UK. I’ve been to the sourh coast and it’s much nicer breeeze then the m25 corridor and home counties etc. my mates lived up north 10c less last there last week and barely a sign of a heatwave just normal temperatures. They may be somewhere in the region of 26c-27c today but again it’s happened plenty of times before. It’s hot where I am but nothing like ive not seen before here lol but they don’t half exaggerate it all. Oh, and 2003 was a very hot summer, 2006 I grew the biggest sunflower ever! Strangely the hottest temps ever recorded are always near airports too in the UK 😆

Those people seem to cope in other parts of the world. Why does the UK think it is so "special" and everything affects them more than anyone else? If your summers are getting warmer then it's about time you thought about what can be done to deal with that, but no, Brits just like to whinge (nothing new there) while sitting back doing nothing.

I'm not in the UK and can remember one year, it would have been around 1990, hearing on the news about how hot it was in the UK and people couldn't cope (while we rolled our eyes), so you are right, this is hardly new.

I suppose I'm saying that, irrespective of how scary the future may appear, we face it best from a place of authenticity. And if that means staying present with uncomfortable feelings (worry, grief for current and future losses, rage, frustration, regret, impotence, hopelessness etc) it's a more truthful expression and connection with the issue than any number of other responses we may choose to try out, such as the rhetorical bypassing I described.

So, although I am intensely uncomfortable when I think about a future in which disabled DC is struggling without me in a world undergoing immense change and trying to adapt at pace, with ever dwindling resources, to the changing climate, I refrain from trying to reframe the dread I feel by dint of some kind of philosophical sleight of hand in an attempt to make myself feel better.

It's the mass exodus of people from hot places that's going to start civil wars.
The South to The North.

I've got my eye on Scotland - they always seem to stay nice and cool in Summer.

We account for a lot more than 1%. It's just that the consequences of "buying a few bits" from Shein or Temu or wherever aren't added to the UK's tally. In Beijing there is sometimes so much smog that you can barely see the end of your own nose, but those factories are only belching out pollution because there is a voracious international appetite for the other crap they produce. We can't rely on China and India to feed the national shopping addiction and then claim we have no power to intervene in the consequences of our own consumerism.

That you Nigel?

Wetherspoons closed?

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/air-con-for-your-home-could-become-part-of-7-5k-heat-pump-grant-3799614?srsltid=AfmBOornFGHqCSEw0ZrfEOQC2U-zfcjGjfyh_e8yWys3LdhgqcAF7b_F

It has; the summer of 1976 was talked about for years!

When people write "I'm old" I used to think they were in their 90s. Usually they're about 62.

Go to a park. Take a walk. It’s not my fault you don’t have a garden. Let me enjoy some sunshine in peace.

That is impossible

My parents and grandparents talked about scorching summers. I remember many hosepipe bans as a kid, grass going brown. To me its just different each year, sometimes like this and then mild for a few years and then another scorcher.

The answer is in your bloody post You have a garden Those of us in flats dont We are in a sealed box

Here you go:

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/terrifying-map-shows-uk-seaside-8849754

The UK has really dragged its heels on political commitment - it's thought to be too damaging economically to do anything that might actually help.

It's not just down to us, it's global. But we have a history of leading the way for example after the great smogs we got our shit together and cleaned things up.

We need that kind of moment that brings people together on this, and unfortunately it will likely be a great tragedy that is the catalyst.

Yes it's here and it's worrying and scary.what is also sad is that my son who's in his 20 s said you don't need to worry about wars what will kill his generation is climate change.parts of the world will become uninhabitable, there will be mass migration and food and water shortages