This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

Mail online is full of comments along these lines, but some are managing to blame immigration which is quite a mental leap. Apparently too many brown people are causing the country to overheat!

It was 27c in the northwest today. And will be 28 tomorrow.

That is normal summer temps

Not wanting to minimise the current temps, but just to add some perspective, after Sunday, the temps are back to 23 - 25c for the coming 2 weeks (variable across the country, but trend is downwards) with some heavy rain due 20 - 23 July

It’s not really rhetorical bypassing.

More a statement of fact.

Homo sapiens have only been around for a few tens of thousands of years. In that time, they have invented capitalism, money and therefore greed. They have got excellent at doing this over the last few thousand years, adding really good weapons into the mix too.

Orangutans or koalas or hummingbirds havent done that, they’ve evolved to adapt seamlessly even though they’ve been here far far longer. Greed is a unique trait to humans.

Of course it isn’t going to be painless, it will likely be utterly brutal, so buckle up MN if humans do wipe themselves out, but let’s face it, it’s a corner we’ve backed ourselves into due to too much intelligence, resources and greed..

But mostly not enough wisdom.

The Earth will be absolutely fine… once humanity has finished itself off.

A cruel sun and relentless storms?? Clearly the North East has dodged some very dramatic weather.

I need to change my garden into an olive grove. Get rid of the soil, only sand will do from now on. My gas boiler will go in the bin, don’t need it any more. It’s scary but we will adapt. We will survive and thrive in our new desert-like climate.

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

I remember an unbearable summer as a child where it got to 35-36. I haven't been a child for some years.
Yes, Global Warming is real but you're being quite dramatic about this heatwave.

Absolutely.

In fact their sense of urgency is so great, they insist on using private jets to get to all the COP events.

Love all the climate crisis deniers popping on to say hello while we all swelter 😂

Yes very worrying - especially thinking of my 8mo old and her future!!

It's possible for people to enjoy the weather today - and for the climate to still be changing!

Since other posters are suggesting it's just like 1976 - it does feel different to the kind of summers and winters I remember from childhood. The sun today felt really severe and cruel, not normal for England. Just as the relentless storm we were getting earlier this year felt tropical, too much rain too quickly, and the flash flooding is extremely dangerous. The 2021 flooding in Europe was devastating.

I met up with a friend last year who lives in Addis Ababa and she was despairing, in a really dark place, about what climate change is doing to Ethiopia and what will happen to climate refugees.

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast you mean the weakening of the Gulf Stream surely?

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.

Yep and everything in the flat gets warm The walls the door handles plus the more worrying things that are mounted on the walls.

No reservoir has been built for 40 years I think. And it's expected that parts of Europe eg central Spain or parts of Greece will be unliveable in the next few decades. Water is going to be a precious resource.

Honestly im in bed sweating under my tits - I'm blaming Taylor swift snd her private jet tbh

WE DIDN'T LISTEN!

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.

It's not state school holidays yet. It'll rain solidly for six weeks after 23rd July and by August we'll be in autumn clothes.

You realise the temperature won't stabilise though? So it won't be a matter of just adapting to a new climate. And what happens to the people who live in current deserts? The sky really is falling. It's easier if you resign yourself to it. It's almost comforting because all the things we worry about will mean nothing in 20 or 30 years.

Reservoirs are low because the water companies haven't invested in them.

Think about how much the population increased in the last 30 years vs how many new reservoirs have been built.

There's always a hot year followed by cooler ones.

Enjoy it while it's here and then we'll be back to the usual drizzle

Anyway, school holidays at the end of next week so that will draw the inevitable line under the sunny weather.

It was sun rain sun rain sun rain in spring in Kent. Damn near perfect growing year so far. Potatoes have all been harvested and are amazing. Wheat the best crop I've ever seen. Farmers moan about the weather every year, always some excuse to put food prices up.

Last year was the wettest spring for years and South East water wanted a hosepipe ban after two weeks of sunshine.