This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

I agree. But the UK's emissions is negligible

Thing is, instead of hand wringing, blaming this that or the other and trying to stop the inevitable, we should be looking at ways to help us live and cope with these changes.
But, but , but! That doesn't make a sexy headline, give some little Swedish troll false fame or enable polluting countries and companies carte blanche to make everyone feel guilty.

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.

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.

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.

Blackberries are fully ripe round where I live, I am sure that this used to happen In September, my montbresia has bloomed and is now starting to die and all the leaves are brown and dry. It used to flower late August to early September, the last bit of colour in my back yard. I was really startled to see it flowering in late June. The seasons are blurred and no longer distinct and it must be really messing with the breeding season for wildlife . Personally I hate this itense heat, makes me feel nauseous and brings on migraine. It must be hell for pregnant women, the very young, the very old and people with chronic health conditions.

This is up there with one of the dumbest takes I’ve read on here..

Yes climate changes is happening but I also just think it's a hot day to be honest.

Exactly!

No thanks. I will do my bit as far as I can. I don't need or want those.
I agree large corporations need to do more.

It's widely accepted a asteroid took out the dinosaurs, & caused catastrophic change across the globe

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And down here in the north of New Zealand, middle of winter, I'm sitting here at 5.30 a.m. and it's 16 deg.c. Last week it was 20deg in the afternoon. There has been rain heavier than I've ever seen it, sweet potato crop rotting in the ground, citrus covered in mould. It's here alright, folks. I suppose the only good thing about it is that the next ice age had been delayed by a few thousand years. But that will come too.

Interestingly NZ came up as one of the safest countries to live in with regards to global warming/one of the least affected in the article I read.
Oh dear, there goes that theory then.

Weird weather episodes aside, I'm extremely glad to be living here. This will no doubt be the lifeboat of the world before too long. Envious eyes will be cast our way, and indeed, are now, as a place to survive the worst the climate can throw at humanity. At least we are not dependant upon the vagaries of the Gulf Stream - the apparently inevitable failure of Britain's heating system. We here in Northland are on a latitude comparable with Morocco. Southland has no Gulf Stream. and winds straight off Antarctica, but at least our climate has everything in between. Wheat, oats and barley all the way up to bananas, figs and grapes.

Britain is 1% of the world population and we have 1% of the world's emissions of CO2. We need to do our bit.

Sure climate changes with ice ages and everything but scientists understand why that happens. They understand about Orbital Precession, Obliquity and Eccentricity of Earth's orbit. They also understand about CO2. Climate will never stay the same but we can avoid the worst of global warming if we choose to do that.

The basic science behind man-made climate change is breathtakingly simple and universally accepted by anyone with a sliver of creditability.

You can say you don't care but we know humans are causing the climate to change outside of natural cycles.

Yes, I always feel like saying “Off you pop then, you first”.:

This is a graph of global temperatures, inc 1976

Eta: it gets a lot worse after 2014 when the graph stops. The last few years have accelerated exponentially.

But we carry on not caring, because we can.

For now

It’s been like this in the South East in the summer for many years. Most years we get a heatwave or 2. Won’t last

It actually rained a lot that Autumn. My umbrella that I took everywhere rusted away in my school bag.

It was hot in 1976. I’m enjoying the heat, it’s normally raining here.
The UK haven’t built any new reservoirs since 1992, that is a disgrace.

Get real. As if anyone can make a dent in any solution for climate change. The average joe doesn’t need to do a thing to be more “eco” it’s corporations, industries and billionaires that can make a dent in it. Go and have a drive through beef burger in an airconned car you’ll feel better!

Thanks to the "evil" Tories the UK has massively increased it's renewable energy portfolio and decarbonise faster than the US or the EU

Why is everyone going on about 1976? In 2022 the temperature got above 40°C. That's 5°C higher than the highest in 1976.

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

Maybe. If it avoids the rapid cooling due to Gulf Stream collapse then that’s something

The 2022 summer heatwave I concur was actually dangerous. This is fine