Is this climate change in action

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The news casually reports Germany having temperatures of +40 and the rest of Europe boiling in record breaking highs. Facebook (mine anyway) seems to be full of people revelling in the heat. It's making me nervous - am I being paranoid? That this is not actually a good thing?

Almost certainly!

No!

My childhood in the 1960s/70s was filled with summers where hot weather went on for weeks on end.

Now whenever we get a hot spell for a few days they bring out this climate change crap!

Think about it, how many people are profiting from touting climate change? It’s big business and if you buy into it all you are doing is help lining their pockets. Read up about it.

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The planet heating up and cooling down over thousands and millions of years is normal.

Are we helping? I don't think so.

Climate change is a proven scientific fact. It’s not something being made up ffs.

Yes and no. It’s much more complicated than a couple of really hot days in summer. The people who shout “climate change” when the weather is hot, are as bad as the ones that shout “so much for climate change” when it’s particularly cold.

Soola I agree. Totes. Am sure slightly older folk remember headlines Phew Wot A Scorcher regularly through the "olden days" summers. BTW not all Academics agree there is a big climate change "now" as per what Aposterhasnoname says.We have three hot scorchio days and the panic starts. My panic was seeing the bloomin flying ants appear on the open air station platform - that's more of a panic to me as I have long thick hair and they get entangled but then suddenly reappear walking on my face/round my ears. Noooooooo. But the lil birds will have a big supper courtesy of those varmints!

Well the five warmest years on record have taken place since 2010
The ice caps are melting at an unprecedented rate
The oceans are heating up and acidifying and dying.
Sea levels are rising at an unprecedented rate
People are losing their homes and their livelihoods

I remember the summer of 1976 - the grass was parched and yellow!

I remember the summer of 76 too
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Its 'big business' who are lobbying to pretend climate change doesnt exist actually Soola. Youre childhood memories arnt evidence of anything altough you say the weather was consistent back then....

'read up on it' where?

heres something to read up on

www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/22/top-oil-firms-spending-millions-lobbying-to-block-climate-change-policies-says-report

I believe us humans are having an effect on the planet but to what degree (see what I did there) I have no idea.

This weeks weather for example. Its being caused by low pressure moving the jet stream down the Atlantic & up over southern europe, bringing hot air up from the azores / north africa. Not sure how this relates to the planet "warming up" exactly. Just weather patterns.

I can't believe anyone has any doubt about climate change. It's an absolute accepted fact by 99% of relevant scientists.

It's actually MUCH worse than people realise. Anyone not sure about what the next few decades holds should read this book (in pics).

It's not quite as straightforward as being able to link weather on one specific day/week with climate change however it is clear and fully accepted that climate change is leading to various impacts which include hotter summers with more frequent and longer lasting heatwaves for Europe.

So where, for example, heatwaves will have occurred previously as perhaps a 1 in a 100 year event - they will no longer be 1 in 100 year events but perhaps 1 in 10 or eventually just 'normal'.

Scientists have warned us for years, but politicians and businessmen said "No change, no way" and refused to spend the money and pass the laws needed for clean energy, low carbon footprints, no microplastics in the ecosystem etc.

I think it's too late now. I believe my grandchildren will be living in a hot, arid, environment with limited power and water and food shortages.

Consensus on humans causing climate change passes 99%
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/24/scientific-consensus-on-humans-causing-global-warming-passes-99?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

"Three studies published in Nature and Nature Geoscience use extensive historical data to show there has never been a period in the last 2,000 years when temperature changes have been as fast and extensive as in recent decades."

Mid 1970s- scorching hot day after day with no respite. We had a family corner shop, I remember 2 or 3 summers where all the chocolate bars melted on the counter and we'd sell out of ice creams and ice lollies within hours of the delivery - the suppliers rationed us due to the demand - only one box of each!

We could start by decentralising everything in the biggest cities and get back to people working in smaller workplaces in more local towns, or even embrace technology and work from home more. I dread to think how much CO2 is caused by all those commuting large distances into London etc.

This heat has been surprisingly disruptive. It reminds me how we are at the mercy of nature. It wouldn't take much to cause real problems. I do see it as part of climate change.

This heat has been surprisingly disruptive.

Our infrastructure, such as railways, is already at or beyond capacity, so there's simply no wriggle-room when things go wrong. We need a complete re-think. We either need to massively improve/update (such as HS2) or implement disincentives to reduce travel, such as reverse the centralisation and concentration of jobs & leisure in London and other hot-spots. Spread out where people live, work and play, to use the huge amounts of housing, space, infrastructure not fully used in the rest of the country. The UK is far too London-centric and it's not sustainable.

Climate change is a proven scientific fact.

^ This.

It's not an opinion or a case of "when I was a little lass we had weeks and weeks of hot sunny weather". FFS