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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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AlizeeEasy · 11/07/2025 20:31

Don’t worry guys, a bunch of people on mumsnet say there’s no problem. Vast majority of experts may disagree, but what do they know?

Lonelycrab · 11/07/2025 20:28

hayfeverforever · 11/07/2025 20:14

is this you’re first time experiencing a heatwave 🤨 where you been?

Yes it’s completely normal even though scientists say this has actually become a very serious situation

Carry on as you always have done. Consume! Be happy! Don’t care about the future of the next few generations, your children’s childrens.

You do you, and take as much as you want and don’t let anyone tell you you can’t!

TheHouseElf · 11/07/2025 20:26

Utter nonsense. I'm old enough to remember the summer of '76. This is not unprecedented. Its summer - you all be moaning soon enough when its cold and dark too no doubt. Enjoy it while it lasts.

JenniferBooth · 11/07/2025 20:26

BreatheAndFocus · 11/07/2025 19:59

And what happened to Winter? I’m in the South but even here we’d have frost on the grass for weeks in the Winter - all completely normal. Now, for the last few years, we’ve had very, very little. Last Winter we had one day of frost.

This isn’t normal Summer heat - and all our seasons are becoming mucked up. It’s frightening to see, as even when my youngest DC was a toddler we still had loads of frosty, icy days, but now we have none. No need for gloves or hats. Not one day in Winter. This affects the plants; the insects; and the viruses and bacteria. Nothing is killed off by a nice cold snap.

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Yep Where i am we have had just one week of snow in recent years in December 2022. Last winter i did not need to wear my winter coat. The most i needed was a thin denim jacket over a jumper

uhta · 11/07/2025 20:20

TheBuffetInspector · 11/07/2025 16:39

This planet has had many cycles of temperature.

CFCs banned in the 90s. The Ozone layer being the big issue.

We can't go back.

We'll never make it right.

It's irreversible now. The planet wants, what the planet wants.

The ozone layer is actually recovering

pollyglot · 11/07/2025 20:19

ThePhantomoftheEcobubbleOpera · Today 20:01

Unless you get that one in four chance megaquake over the next 50 years so violent that it rips the country in half, then you can keep it.

Chacun à son goût...

I have a holiday home sitting squarely upon the most active volcanic zone in the world. It's on a glorious lake, surrounded by bush and serenity. Life is short. Life is uncertain. Rather a natural explosion than a nuclear one. I'll take my chances.

HauntedMarshmallow · 11/07/2025 20:19

HelpMeGetThrough · 11/07/2025 17:08

And it’s bloody lovely.

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Most British people aren’t designed for excessive temperatures.

Starch1e · 11/07/2025 20:18

CheekyFish · 11/07/2025 19:15

Its not clear if you’re worried about it being too hot or too cold

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Too hot in the Artic and Greenland (leading to melting ice-caps) could lead to it being significantly colder in the UK (collapse of AMOC/Gulf Stream).

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Wowwee1234 · 11/07/2025 20:18

MyTidyMoose · 11/07/2025 19:30

You believe MSM? Come on this is what summer used to be like 60 years ago & yes I can still remember those school summer holidays. If the world is changing then all we can do is our bit without being over the top.

No I follow and read scientific papers. Because I studied science. The vast, vast, majority of well educated climate scientists have clear and decisive evidence of our rapidly changing climate. Ice cores, Polar ice caps. Changing rainfall patterns. Coral bleaching. Retreating glaciers. Seasonal shifting. All linked to climate gases increasing in the atmosphere. Climate gases discovered to create a warmjng effect at the time of the industrial revolution. Not new.

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AlizeeEasy · 11/07/2025 20:17

Some people are pointing out it’s been like this for years as if that’s some proof that climate change isn’t real when that’s quite literally the opposite. Do you think climate change occurs once? Rather than a slow process that is taking decades. The signs have existed for many many years and governments have refused to engage because it’s costly and no one country alone can make a difference so this will continue until it’s untenable

Blueblell · 11/07/2025 20:17

To be fair we are not matching European weather they have it in the 40’s.

Gbafa · 11/07/2025 20:16

dynamiccactus · 11/07/2025 20:10

It's not just about climate change, though. It's about air pollution which causes many thousands of deaths a year

Please turn off your engines when you are stationary!

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Fair enough.

hayfeverforever · 11/07/2025 20:14

is this you’re first time experiencing a heatwave 🤨 where you been?

TammyJones · 11/07/2025 20:13

TheBuffetInspector · 11/07/2025 16:42

The dinosaurs were impacted.

We are SO fucking self absorbed to think this is about us.

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Exactly.
remember last summer ?

halfpennypocketwatch · 11/07/2025 20:12

TarquinsTurnips · 11/07/2025 17:54

It's not just about one hot summer. If you google it, you can find predictions of how much of UK coast will be under water due to rising sea levels. It is a lot. Enough to make you think would I want to live in a seaside town.

Unfortunately we catastrophically fucked it.

Scientists predictions aren't great.

This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite
munchingmunch · 11/07/2025 20:12

When I was little in the 80s, it was hot every summer, all summer.

@MumWifeOther where did you live? The UK didn't have long hot summers throughout the 80s...

dynamiccactus · 11/07/2025 20:11

Starch1e · 11/07/2025 20:10

1% of emissions produced in UK because we don't manufacture anything... what about all the emissions in China and rest of Asia to produce and ship everthing we use to UK?

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China does create a lot of emissions but it is also trying to mitigate them, for example by making electric cars rather than fossil fueled cars.

Imaybeoldbutstillrandy · 11/07/2025 20:11

Yup - too freaking hot - temp in my house is 30.9. that's with all advice to open windows early, shut them when temp outside more than inside, close curtains, have fan in main room.

However, come November we will be complaining about how cold it is & looking for tips on how to keep yourself warm.

Feeling lucky that our bedroom faces North so stays cool.

dynamiccactus · 11/07/2025 20:10

Gbafa · 11/07/2025 20:03

I agree. But the UK's emissions is negligible

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It's not just about climate change, though. It's about air pollution which causes many thousands of deaths a year

Please turn off your engines when you are stationary!

Inyournewdress · 11/07/2025 20:10

HelpMeGetThrough · 11/07/2025 17:08

And it’s bloody lovely.

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It’s not lovely. Where in the country are you? What health conditions do you have? What job do you do? Do you have a home, if so a flat or a house? A garden?

People are suffering and dying and even the biggest hot weather lovers I know are struggling.

Starch1e · 11/07/2025 20:10

Gbafa · 11/07/2025 19:34

But let's be honest. Don't ignore this post. Challenge me. The only is only 1% if the world's total emissions. We have no impact whatsoever

1% of emissions produced in UK because we don't manufacture anything... what about all the emissions in China and rest of Asia to produce and ship everthing we use to UK?

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Wowwee1234 · 11/07/2025 20:10

anyzee · 11/07/2025 18:47

Realistically what is the point of worrying about it, as I don't know what else we can do individually.

If big governments around the world are merely paying lip service by lecturing us, and not doing much policy wise, I can't make myself worried about it. If you don't agree with me then tell me what I should do please. Join stop oil, demonstrate, start a petition, what?

In the meantime I'll enjoy the nice weather, just as I did for every heatwave I experienced often for weeks on end back in the 70s and forwards to today.

Loads we can do individually

  • demonstrate
  • write to MPs
  • manage our own lifestyles
  • educate others
  • educate ourselves
  • talk about it
  • avoid buying from abd visiting countries not doing enough (USA, India, Australia)
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LastTrainsEast · 11/07/2025 20:10

I was this hot last year and many years before.

When you hear about floods take note of "worst for 30 years" or "worst for 50 years" which means it happened before.

Don't get me wrong. The planet has cycles and we might have to deal with changes, but the sky is not falling.

Remember humans manage in Alaska & Iceland, We live in Deserts and Jungles. Hurricanes sounds scary to us in the UK, but to many Americans and others too they are normal.

dynamiccactus · 11/07/2025 20:09

TheBuffetInspector · 11/07/2025 16:42

The dinosaurs were impacted.

We are SO fucking self absorbed to think this is about us.

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The dinosaurs were quite literally impacted - by an asteroid. It wasn't climate change that did for them. Well, not caused by natural causes anyway.

It's amazing how many people just can't accept that climate change is happening faster than it has before. Heaven forbid that they stop driving an SUV or go ski-ing.

MumWifeOther · 11/07/2025 20:06

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.

When I was little in the 80s, it was hot every summer, all summer.

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