You right OP.
Actually this year has broken records for the hottest day in July ever recorded in the UK. The met office have recently issued a report stating that in the past decade we have experienced the hottest summers on record and none of the coldest winters. The trend is showing an irrevocable picture of climate change and that is from the met office. Hardly leftfield thinking. All the science is there and the predictions are bleak. Towns under water. Crop failures. Food and Water insecurity. Increased vector born diseases for example we may start seeing malaria in the UK. Mass migration of people from even hotter, drier or flooded places.
I wish people would stop denying the truth.
Take responsibility. We need to act now.
Stop flying. That is the single worst thing an individual can do in terms of carbon emissions. Reduce your driving when non-essential. Reduce your red meat and diary intake as much as possible and consider Veganism. Accept that we live in a broken system fuelled by growth economies and fossil fuel consumption. Lobby for companies to divest in fossil fuels. Lobby the government and protest for change to investment, regulation and legislation.
We need to rethink our whole way of life, before it all comes crashing down around us.