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This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

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Wowwee1234 · 11/07/2025 16:29

We know the climate is changing and it is us. This particular heat wave feels like the next step up after a winter of devastating storms.

YABU - It's just too hot
YANBU - This is the taste of things to come.

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VaccineSticker · 11/07/2025 23:05

HelpMeGetThrough · 11/07/2025 17:08

And it’s bloody lovely.

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Lovely if you have an air con in an office or if you’re sitting in your garden in a paddling pool or lazing at the beach etc . This country is not set up for this type of weather. The windows literally don’t even open more than couple of inches in many houses and offices! And the poor kids are roasting in classrooms, all radiating heat, melting down.

Viviennemary · 11/07/2025 22:59

Climate change has been happening for millions of years. It's part of a cycle.

EscapeToSuffolk · 11/07/2025 22:57

munchingmunch · 11/07/2025 22:00

I wonder whether the failure to recognise what is happening is a bit like people's failure to notice that they're gaining weight (because everyone else is, and they still feel normal by comparison) or drinking too much.

No, lots of people are simply stupid, plenty are bored & like to be contrary & many people are narrow minded & set in their views.

I'll get called ageist but the average person on this thread is going to be old eg 50/60 plus & older people to tend to become more fixed in their viewpoints.

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

Falingoth · 11/07/2025 22:55

Fearfulsaints · 11/07/2025 17:30

We've always had weather but there seems to be a huge amount of evidence that its changing and changing faster than at other points of time

The problem is you can't say today is hot, thats its climate change as we have indeed always had hot summer days.

But you can say the last 20 years were hotter than the previous 100 or whatever it is the graphs show.

I think its about the frequency of events too.

Which is basically the definition of climate.

lifeonmars100 · 11/07/2025 22:50

People remember the summer of 76 because it was so unusual and that is why it stands out in memory and has been the background of a few novels. It is brilliantly evoked in Barbara Vine's thriller "A fatal inversion" which really captures the seemingly endless days of piercing blue cloudless skies and suffocating nights.

Finteq · 11/07/2025 22:41

SoppySalad · 11/07/2025 22:35

Bloody hell. It’s summer. I voted YABU, but to be quite honest I didn’t like that response either. It is not too hot. It’s bloody lovely. It won’t last long (although I wish it would) and then we’ll go into autumn and the other seasons.
Stop catastrophising and get yourself to a BBQ.

I didn't vote- cos I didn't agree with either option.

It wasn't that hot here today at all.

I remember when we were young. My dad would open both the front and back doors. Have the fan on and windows open. And we would still be too hot.

Today the only reason I only had the windows open in the kitchen. It is always cooler outside than inside.

Our kitchen is open plan with a conservatory so the kitchen gets really hot and warms up the whole house. So we just keep the windows open and if it's a really hot day try and keep the kitchen door shut. ( the house was like that when we bought it and the kitchen is freezing in the winter.)

We need to fix it. And hopefully within the next couple.of years. But apart from that it's not too hot at all. And the only the reason the house is a bit warmer than I'd like is because of the Conservatory.

WearyAuldWumman · 11/07/2025 22:41

Donttellempike · 11/07/2025 19:01

You remember it because it was an outlier

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The summer of '79 was really warm. We had a greenfly plague then.

I remember it because I was in a Russian summer school at the Uni of East Anglia.

WearyAuldWumman · 11/07/2025 22:38

munchingmunch · 11/07/2025 18:05

July 1960 was comparable I believe.

Was it?

I was around then, but too young to remember it. I do remember long hot summers later in the '60s, however.

JenniferBooth · 11/07/2025 22:37

Finteq · 11/07/2025 21:09

And these high rise flats don't help.

They need to install air con into them.

You can't blame climate change when it's the design of the residence that's causing the heat.

The old victoriana style houses with the high ceilings keep a lot cooler in this weather.

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https://inews.co.uk/news/housing/britains-homes-made-retain-heat-shame-about-35c-summers-3794225

Britain's homes were made to retain heat. Shame about these 35°C summers

As the UK prepares to enter its third heatwave of the summer, millions are living in homes painfully ill-equipped to deal with soaring temperatures

https://inews.co.uk/news/housing/britains-homes-made-retain-heat-shame-about-35c-summers-3794225

CeeJay81 · 11/07/2025 22:37

Yep. I'm seriously thinking about looking into air conditioners, have said that for years but may have no choice now. Decent ones seem very expensive but it's going to be yet another necessary expense before long. Staying up cause I don't want to go to bed in this heat.

SunnyViper · 11/07/2025 22:36

Adapt or die.

SoppySalad · 11/07/2025 22:35

Bloody hell. It’s summer. I voted YABU, but to be quite honest I didn’t like that response either. It is not too hot. It’s bloody lovely. It won’t last long (although I wish it would) and then we’ll go into autumn and the other seasons.
Stop catastrophising and get yourself to a BBQ.

Finteq · 11/07/2025 22:32

Approx 58 million people in UK in 1996

And approx 69 million in 2025.

But no new reservoirs built in that time

JenniferBooth · 11/07/2025 22:31

Unloaded washing machine and sweated my guts out. Wet tops crumpled up in carrier bag so they dont dry ready to wear. And wearing wet top until my late night bath so i can go to bed with wet hair.

usernamealreadytaken · 11/07/2025 22:29

RampantIvy · 11/07/2025 18:06

This is Woodhead reservoir today

Probably nothing to do with too many people accessing too few resources, obviously.

usernamealreadytaken · 11/07/2025 22:24

Wowwee1234 · 11/07/2025 17:14

Not if you are elderly, an infant, unwell, working especially physical labour.

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They have all those people all over Europe, where people from the UK like to go on big airplanes on holiday to enjoy that sort of weather. Literally no irony there.

Tedsnan1 · 11/07/2025 22:23

My car was covered in ladybirds this evening. Took me straight back to '76.

Goingawayistricky · 11/07/2025 22:21

It’s pointless moaning though.
Civilisation isn’t going back to
living like peasants easily.
Either you have a vastly reduced population or you have people living very reduced (and controlled)lives.

For every person on here that doesn’t have a car, only lives off the land doesn’t holiday I know many people on their 3rd or 4th (or 8th) holiday this year, eating food from around the world and buying stuff they want not need.

PencilsInSpace · 11/07/2025 22:20

EveSix · 11/07/2025 21:13

Please do not seek to emulate the PP's outlook; hold on to your authentic and clear-sighted response of unease and worry.

The peddlars of "The planet will be fine, it doesn't matter if humanity is wiped out," angle are attempting a bit of rhetorical bypassing; it is a common rut into which can people drop when the dread of the reality of the unfolding crisis feels overwhelming. It entirely shrugs off the truth that any 'wiping out' will not be a swift and painless business as the phrase implies, but rather involve a century of displacement due to resource-based conflict (war, invasion and occupation), loss, disease, famine and starvation, social collapse, regression of human and employment rights, violence, fear and death. And not 'only' in remote communities and countries in the global South, but right here in the UK.

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I agree with your stark predictions but I don't understand how a response of unease and worry is supposed to help.

bookworm14 · 11/07/2025 22:17

Frugalgal · 11/07/2025 20:00

I can't read this thread because I just know there will be countless morons saying 'its called summer'. The stupidity of this is beyond belief, we are experiencing record highs, increasing all the time.

It's not 'called summer' you blithering ignorant simpletons. It's called the UK turning into a hot country which we are totally unprepared for.

This. People are so fucking thick (or wilfully blind).

Charlize43 · 11/07/2025 22:12

I'm loving it and don't feel that I need to go abroad for some sun this year.

munchingmunch · 11/07/2025 22:07

I wonder what would convince the people who are inclined to think the weather we have now is just normal variation.

Nothing will.

If you deny a problem then you absolve yourself of any responsibility to fix it. There is so much reluctance to acknowledge many things eg house prices vs salaries, wage stagnation, ageing population etc

Finteq · 11/07/2025 22:06

JenniferBooth · 11/07/2025 21:40

JenniferBooth · 09/07/2025 22:22
"In late June 2024, the United Kingdom was affected by a heatwave, with most of the country seeing temperatures reaching 26 °C (79 °F). In mid-July and late-July 2024, heatwaves affected the United Kingdom, and again in August"

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Not in the northwest

We had 1 hot week.

JenniferBooth · 11/07/2025 22:00

offtocalifornia · 11/07/2025 21:55

I wonder whether the failure to recognise what is happening is a bit like people's failure to notice that they're gaining weight (because everyone else is, and they still feel normal by comparison) or drinking too much.

It isn't just that we've had high temperatures before - it's also how long the heat goes on for, and how rapidly the weather has been changing, unseasonally.

I wonder what would convince the people who are inclined to think the weather we have now is just normal variation.

The news is full of coverage of flash floods all over the world, and wildfires. And surely people can see the connection between climate change and food getting really expensive.

I found the heatwaves of 2019 and 2022 really awful. And yes, the sun today was cruel where I live, even in the late afternoon when I had to walk to school for pick-up. Our houses and workplaces aren't geared for sustained high temperatures.

there is a link If my kitchen wasnt 32c i would be able to stand there and cook..........including healthy meals

munchingmunch · 11/07/2025 22:00

I wonder whether the failure to recognise what is happening is a bit like people's failure to notice that they're gaining weight (because everyone else is, and they still feel normal by comparison) or drinking too much.

No, lots of people are simply stupid, plenty are bored & like to be contrary & many people are narrow minded & set in their views.

I'll get called ageist but the average person on this thread is going to be old eg 50/60 plus & older people to tend to become more fixed in their viewpoints.