This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

I am always slightly sceptical about the data, I visited a cave last year and the guide was showing us the rock layers and telling us how many million years ago each layer was from, he came to a section where he said there was several million years "missing" from the layers, it wasn't just missing in one section it was missing from the whole cave system, no one has been able to explain how or why that is. I just don't trust that scientists can be absolutely certain about climate cycles from thousand and millions of years ago.

The planet will survive for sure, the problem is that humans will likely take every other species down with them.

Just relax.
I'm old and there have been plenty of hot summers over the years.
Some even hotter than now....

I just can't get worked up about it, realistically there's nothing we can do about it and nothing is going to drastically change in our lifetime.

I just think there's been so much change in the world since time began, this is just a tiny fragment of time.

I hope the planet survives and humans don't

So what. You probably watch it online. Or worse, your own you tube research
really blind to the irony of ignoring climate change and being annoyed re immigration…

Oh charming! You'll be 50 before you know it.

Hopefully I won't be stupid though 🤞🏼

Aha......

I don't have TV!

Spot the GBeebies entertainment fan

There was none of this drama in the old days!!
It's just rubbish..

Get on with your lives and worry more about all the illegal migrants using our resources.

I was at school in the sixties and we took our chairs and tables outside.

Oh come on OP, we have very, very few warm days compared to most countries. Most of the year it’s cold and miserable.

I don’t deny climate change, but the earth was never meant to be eternal. One day it will be absorbed by the sun.

I was a young mother in 1976 and it was hotter than this!
And it went on for a long time...

I agree. But there seems a lot of assumptions that we are all suffering in the heat and scared of climate change. Some of us, believe it or not, having been waiting years for a week or two of deliciously hot weather. For once I’m not feeling damned depressed to live in this shit hole of a country.

How can people not enjoy this weather?

Because - and I know this may come as a shock - we aren’t all the same?

I’m a food tech teacher. No air con and all ovens on. Finished work, popped on my shorts and fired up the barbecue, sat outside enjoying 34 degrees until the sun went down and the mozzies came out. Ice lolly’s at the ready.
How can people not enjoy this weather?

There are some amazing scientific advances being made towards clean energy.

Yes we're in deep shit and everyone needs to be playing a small part in trying not to make it worse to give science time to find solutions.

We donate to schemes to offset carbon emissions, we've paid for a lot of trees but also other schemes to reduce fossil fuel consumption in various countries. We dont consume lots of tat.

Not generally a conspiracy theorist but wouldnt put it past some people to release another virus to kill loads of people off.

General consensus is yes this is anthropogenic and at faster rate than we have recorded anywhere else in earth history (caveate being of course that our records are relatively low resolution -and very very low resolution when we have to look at the rock record).

conversely the CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been higher in the earths past and there are numerous feedback mechanisms which allow the earths climate to vary. Fact is as modern humans we are very intolerant to change! Which is a problem really given our dynamic environment

Erm dramatic much!

The weather was so nice at 21 degrees in the South East beginning of June - if it could stay at 21 degrees I would be happy ! how can you love 30 degrees! You obviously are a SAHM or retired and not having to work!

Ironically those windows and doors that are supposed to be there for your safety are also the detriment to your own health in highly dangerous temperatures like today. It reached 34 degrees outdoors in the shade here. Indoors was worse. This country is not designed for extreme heat.

The rules that turned flats into sweat boxes didnt exist in 1976

What? It was hotter than this in 1976.

It's all nonsense.

Happening over millions of years over quite large timescales- thousands or more years.

The current (incredibly rapid) climate change we are experiencing now has happened over a handful of decades, and is inarguably down to a very sharp rise in CO2 in our atmosphere. That’s what all of science tells us. There isn’t any credible data that tells us otherwise.

windows dont open more than a couple of inches in flats either Health and safety, Window restrictors The taxi driver who very helpfully helped me with my shopping up the stairs tonight got a blast of the stifling hot air as we opened the door to my flat He said "you could leave the door open and let some air in from the (communal) stone hallway
Should have seen his face when i told him we arent allowed to as the door to our flat is a fire door!!