This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

I most certainly fit in the unwell camp, but to me it makes a massive difference.

I mean, we've been warned about the irreversible effects of human greed in using and abusing the resources of our beautiful planet since the 70s at least. Before I was born. My parents were well aware of it. I think people would rather say platitudes like you are because facing the truth is too scary for them.

Lots of people sadly did die from the covid epidemic. There will likely be future epidemics that kill millions.

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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.

It wasn't climate change which impacted the dinosaurs though...

It's not reached late 30s, early 40s? It's summer at last, been waiting for this for 30 years when I was a kid and we had hot summers

Another one who didn't grow up in the UK.

Some scientists said a huge percentage of us would die from Covid.

😆😆😆 This is the thread that keeps on giving

Completely agree with this, and the people who will suffer most will be those in poorer countries who did least to cause the problem and who have the fewest resources to protect themselves.

There are already inhabited islands which are partly underwater- these people often live simple lives, fishing and farming.

And the billionaires who made the problem worse will barely feel the effects at all.

In the middle of childbirth??

Some scientists said a huge percentage of us would die from Covid.

I could not agree more. Well said.

Spring 2025 is the hottest on record for the UK.
June 2025 is the hottest on record for England.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cwyrw66jkkko#:~:text=Spring%202025%20was%20the%20UK's,it's%20not%20even%20mid%2DJuly.

I hope you like tarantulas as well then! We've already had waves of daddy long legs spiders (yes it is a type of spider) and false widow spiders across my part of the UK in the last 15 years due to climate change. There are tarantulas in Spain, Italy and Cyprus!

I really do appreciate the UK's lack of deadly snakes and spiders.

I don't think the planet 'wants' climate change.

Don’t disagree with any of that.

But I do wish the “oh it’s just summer” people could grasp the idea.

Like I’ve said before, a large part of it is down to selfishness, and greed, essentially- I don’t care.

Mostly lack of wisdom though.

You have been waiting 30 years for this @Shellyash ? Where is the laugh emojii when you need it?

Hush please, poster who is "me me me" and doesnt care for older people, kids/babies/wildlife/enviroment.

Maybe just think your thoughts in your vacuous head?

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I’m old ( 79) so I won’t see the awful devastation that’s coming for all you young people here.
I know that I’ve done my best to alleviate this avoidable tragedy.
I have no sympathy for the deniers but the sorrow is: you all have to suffer because of their attitude.

I hate threads like this. I absolutely believe climate change is real and im terrified of it. Reading about it spikes my anxiety hugely for my children’s futures and makes me feel sick. But what I hate is the comments that “we all deserve it, we brought it on ourselves”. Yes a lot of it will sadly be due to human behaviours, but generally most ordinary humans are good people just living a normal day to day life. Do we, and especially the innocent children, really “deserve” to suffer :(

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"

It may be a statement of fact -it's true, the planet will be fine. But what I'm getting at is the mechanism by which otherwise reasonable, compassionate people seem to shrug and trot out this line, shamelessly ignoring the suffering of billions in the process of aforementioned wiping out, both human and animal life, on land and in our oceans.
It may be factual but it shies away from the reality of our human condition and our very real loves, attachments, friendships, needs and comforts.

It will steadily get hotter and more unpredictable for the rest of our (and our children's) lives.

The heat we're having now was created by emissions released in the 70s.

Actually if the ice caps melt most of the south will be under water.

Actually, so will most of Britain. I'll be fine, sitting in my holiday home in the world's most active volcanic zone, a couple of thousand feet above sea level.

Agree — but equally last summer was AWFUL. (I’m in the UK.) While I’m sure we’re experiencing new weather patterns as a result of global warming, I’m not 100% sure what that will look like going forward…

The reason that the summer of 76 lives in legend and memory is because it was highly unusual.

Me too.

We only has one week of warm weather the whole of last year as well.