This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

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

The science of humans causing unnatural climate change is pretty much indisputable.

You can say - and plenty do - that you don't care, but it's happening.

All?
I can think of one who certainly isn't

One day, the sun will engulf the earth anyway.

So there's a cheery thought to put everything in perspective.

The pandemic changed everything for me in terms of Mother Nature deciding our fate in the end. We aren’t going to be able to control a large scale pandemic if it takes hold in the same way that we can’t reverse climate change.

You’re freaking out about the heat but I’m more worried about us becoming an extremely cold country due to the weakening of El Niño. Being freezing cold and having the have the heating on 10 months of the year sounds much more concerning than hot summers.

I am relieved that most people selected "you are not being unreasonable" option.

Today was disgusting. The UK should never be this warm. Even just imagine how revolting and unhygienic everyone is walking around covered in sweat.

What I find so weird about everyone who harps on about '1976 I was there' is that there seems to be a wilful refusal to clock that an isolated event during cooler average temperatures is not the same thing as having '1976' every year

Do you really find it weird @BarilynBordeaux? I think it's entirely to be expected of some.

Apart that 99.9 percentage of scientist know that it's climate change not just global warming. I weirdly believe them more than my own experience of one year in the 70s.

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.

Each one has only lasted a couple of days though, it isn't like we have had a constant period of extreme temperatures.

I replied to a post saying it was 3 days of extreme temperatures, my point was it has been more than 3 days. I never said they are consecutive.

Regardless of the prognosis for the planet/ the species longer term, do the people saying "Just enjoy the nice weather" have so little theory of mind that they fail to conceptualise that for some people it isn't even vaguely "nice"; it makes them / us feel hideously ill and unable to function?!

"Nice" is subjective not objective or absolute.

We're 1% of the world's emissions. If we reach net zero tomorrow, it ain't gonna do shit

Each one has only lasted a couple of days though, it isn't like we have had a constant period of extreme temperatures.

This is fine to mention, but the thread title is referring to the heat over a couple of days.

I don’t think that is the most telling thing, or it as they put it.

I have adjusted some behaviour, but it’s a personal thing for my dc pretty much. I still do stuff though that contributes to climate change, so not everything. Plus I have dc which is a factor already.

You remember it because it was an outlier

Kinda agree with you, although I can understand the push to explore space as the next step in our evolution. Musk is probably far more a culprit these days in that regard now. I do think we need to sort out our problems on earth (hollow laugh) before trying to get to eg Mars though.
But I don’t doubt their scientific research wrt climate change. They’ve been surveying this stuff for a long time.

By changing our behaviour, the hole in the ozone layer repaired. It was a huge success. These days we’re so stupid and untogether people would be running electoral platforms on their right to hairspray with CFCs.

Put on your hoodie made from oil, and your hivis jacket made from oil, and your vegan shoes made from oil.
Travel across the country using fuel made from oil to where you can cause most disruption to the most people getting on with their lives.
Smugly ruin everyones work education and health by creating a multihour traffic jam and destroy some things by throwing paint at them.
When it gets too hot to have fun doing those things settle down with your electric device and broadcast a good telling off online.

That'll help.

What I find so weird about everyone who harps on about '1976 I was there' is that there seems to be a wilful refusal to clock that an isolated event during cooler average temperatures is not the same thing as having '1976' every year

@Lonelycrab I 100% believe the planet is warming & climate is changing. However NASA aren’t the good guys! Every rocket launched thins the Ozone layer & every passenger per rocket adds 100x the carbon footprint of a long haul flight.

In the future I think there will be parts of Africa and the Mediterranean that will be inhabitable and migration north will happen.
I'm not sure it's stoppable. It might just be what nature intended, or our path to self destruction.
Just my opinion though.

Melting of the perma frost in eg Greenland, Siberia etc.

Destruction of the great rain forests

Glaciers in mountain regions receding to unprecedented levels.

Loss of ice levels at both poles at an alarming rate.

All this is documented. We rely on scientists to save our lives through medicine, provide us with the devices we’re all typing on, give us air travel, space travel…

Bit if they say: hang on a minute you should really stop releasing too much carbon or polluting our ecosystems…

we ignore them.

and that’s because we’re selfish!

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.

I love the hot weather. I've been outside sunbathing all day.

Well, I'd start by not building homes on land prone to flooding @Holluschickie. You can make adaptations to your home to minimise the damage should that occur. Make sure you have a bug out bag in the event of any emergency. Have a plan of what to do in the event of flash flooding. But I'm struggling to think of a scenario in which having every sunny day ruined by handwringing parents improves your odds.