This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

But it's not just about humanity. I'm not really bothered if the human race eventually dies out, but all of the animals and nature are suffering for our selfishness and they don't deserve this. We have/had a beautiful world perfectly designed for living beings and we are absolutely killing it. 😥

I'm amazed 35% of posters think you're being unreasonable. Some people just can't get their heads out of the sand, can they? What will it take for some people to realise what's going on?

Climate change is a big issue. However, there is no need for the scaremongering that goes on with every heatwave. Every year we get heatwaves with temps over 30 degrees and headlines about how it's hotter than Spain. Just let people enjoy the sun before we are 'battered by Storm x'. Climate change is an issue every day of the year, not just during heatwaves.

Not long to go

There are broader trends I’m sure but a couple of 30 degree days don’t make me think doom.

Other stuff might.

The climate has always changed. And always will. Anyone who doesn't realise that is pretty dim.

Once you know that, then the idea of taking it into account when you build (for example not building on flood plains, better water management, better urban layout) seems only common sense.

However, for reasons unclear, we seem to think it is a much better use of precious resources to argue about it, as if the cause somehow makes a difference.

I'll be long gone when it's changed a bit more. In fact the change may take me with it, what with age and heatwaves not really being the best of combinations.

The sooner that Homo Sapiens has been wiped from the planet the better.

Climate change and AI, only thing that makes me feel not so bad about being childless 😕

It did in 1976 and it did have other heatwaves through the years. When we were having a heatwave last week it was 21c in Sunderland. I’m in the south. And it also matched temperatures throughout history. Same old topic as 2022 then Silence last year and the year before when we had a shit summer. So much rain. It’s always been like this . I remember summer 1990 sleeping with window opens going to the med and temperatures matching. Climate has always gone around in cycle.

Whatever. No surprise you’re getting testy for no reason.

I’d say enjoy the sunshine but maybe not.

Bizarre that you can’t even respond to any of those valid point I’ve made, instead coming back with

well I hope you don’t go on holiday or have kids🙄

Well no, knowing you, it’s not particularly bizarre.

How do you adapt to a flash flood?

I don't think it helps to be too dramatic about these things. Climate change is inevitable - it will require our children to have a stoic outlook and the ability to adapt. It won't be helped by being raised by chicken littles who induce anxiety by descending into misery on a lovely day.

You what now? Bizarre at ‘card’.

Great news re tent holidays.

Everything causes a huge strain on the NHS, because it's shit. Badly managed, bureaucratic, overstaffed and understaffed in all the wrong places, disjointed systems, endless waste, buying 20p-worth of paracetamol for £20.

You'd really be making a rod for your own back if you cared about easing the burden on the NHS. It's there to serve us, not the other way around.

For those that can remember....it was like this in 1976. The tarmac on the melted. So it's not new...it's weather

Don’t try and play the hypocrisy card ES

Holiday in wales, in a tent thank you very much.

Its your children’s children that will be the ones doing the worrying, because the current generations ignored the warnings and were essentially too selfish

The children's children probably won't exist tbh as so many aren't having them now!

Are you pretty good about not taking holidays or limiting dc etc?

Oh It’s undeniably here.

The problem is, those that are in a position to change things, the current generation in power and the generation before, won’t be around to see the imminent climate collapse, so they just don’t care. Neither do their supporters, because they won’t be here either. They all want more stuff/growth/money and they don’t like being told they should actually stop or at least slow down.

Pretty clear what the scientific consensus on this is. I don’t think people are actually too stupid to not get this… it’s that they’re too selfish, so come up with all sorts of dodgy, un verified studies by dodgy agencies to support their claims. I trust people like ie NASA and the numerous other great scientific organisations that all say the same thing.

The poster on page 1 saying humanity will likely wipe itself out anyway, and in the scheme of things, the earth will probably bounce back- strong agree.

All those saying it’s all a load of nonsense… relax! Enjoy your meaningless consumption, carry on as you are, you’ve nothing to worry about!

Its your children’s children that will be the ones doing the worrying, because the current generations ignored the warnings and were essentially too selfish

It's 3 days of 'extreme' temperatures.

It's the third heatwave of the year...

Yes, this is the new normal

People forget how dangerous heat can be

"The 1976 heatwave was estimated to have led to 700 extra deaths in the UK. In the record breaking summer of 2022 there were an estimated 2,985 excess deaths associated with heat."

To all the haters, don't worry as it will be pissing it down next week when the kids break up for the summer hols.

It's 3 days of 'extreme' temperatures.

People only care when it directly affects them. Hot day? They’ll go and sunbathe. bad weather? They stay inside. It doesn’t really affect them all that much.

from a different perspective this extreme weather causes a huge strain on the nhs. Anyone with d and v is more likely to need IV fluids. People with kidney issues are likely struggling. The elderly. But people don’t care until it’s them.

our planet has been abused by humans. For way too long. The amount of animals we’ve made become extinct is a total disgrace so it doesn’t surprise me people aren’t bothered about other stuff.