This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

[Wowwee1234]

We know the climate is changing and it is us. This particular heat wave feels like the next step up after a winter of devastating storms.

YABU - It's just too hot
YANBU - This is the taste of things to come.

I could not agree more. Well said.

Spring 2025 is the hottest on record for the UK.
June 2025 is the hottest on record for England.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cwyrw66jkkko#:~:text=Spring%202025%20was%20the%20UK's,it's%20not%20even%20mid%2DJuly.

Some scientists said a huge percentage of us would die from Covid.

In the middle of childbirth??

Completely agree with this, and the people who will suffer most will be those in poorer countries who did least to cause the problem and who have the fewest resources to protect themselves.

There are already inhabited islands which are partly underwater- these people often live simple lives, fishing and farming.

And the billionaires who made the problem worse will barely feel the effects at all.

Some scientists said a huge percentage of us would die from Covid.

😆😆😆 This is the thread that keeps on giving

It's not reached late 30s, early 40s? It's summer at last, been waiting for this for 30 years when I was a kid and we had hot summers

Another one who didn't grow up in the UK.

It wasn't climate change which impacted the dinosaurs though...

I wonder whether the failure to recognise what is happening is a bit like people's failure to notice that they're gaining weight (because everyone else is, and they still feel normal by comparison) or drinking too much.

It isn't just that we've had high temperatures before - it's also how long the heat goes on for, and how rapidly the weather has been changing, unseasonally.

I wonder what would convince the people who are inclined to think the weather we have now is just normal variation.

The news is full of coverage of flash floods all over the world, and wildfires. And surely people can see the connection between climate change and food getting really expensive.

I found the heatwaves of 2019 and 2022 really awful. And yes, the sun today was cruel where I live, even in the late afternoon when I had to walk to school for pick-up. Our houses and workplaces aren't geared for sustained high temperatures.

Lots of people sadly did die from the covid epidemic. There will likely be future epidemics that kill millions.

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I mean, we've been warned about the irreversible effects of human greed in using and abusing the resources of our beautiful planet since the 70s at least. Before I was born. My parents were well aware of it. I think people would rather say platitudes like you are because facing the truth is too scary for them.

I most certainly fit in the unwell camp, but to me it makes a massive difference.

I wonder whether the failure to recognise what is happening is a bit like people's failure to notice that they're gaining weight (because everyone else is, and they still feel normal by comparison) or drinking too much.

No, lots of people are simply stupid, plenty are bored & like to be contrary & many people are narrow minded & set in their views.

I'll get called ageist but the average person on this thread is going to be old eg 50/60 plus & older people to tend to become more fixed in their viewpoints.

there is a link If my kitchen wasnt 32c i would be able to stand there and cook..........including healthy meals

Not in the northwest

We had 1 hot week.

I wonder what would convince the people who are inclined to think the weather we have now is just normal variation.

Nothing will.

If you deny a problem then you absolve yourself of any responsibility to fix it. There is so much reluctance to acknowledge many things eg house prices vs salaries, wage stagnation, ageing population etc

I'm loving it and don't feel that I need to go abroad for some sun this year.

This. People are so fucking thick (or wilfully blind).

I agree with your stark predictions but I don't understand how a response of unease and worry is supposed to help.

It’s pointless moaning though.
Civilisation isn’t going back to
living like peasants easily.
Either you have a vastly reduced population or you have people living very reduced (and controlled)lives.

For every person on here that doesn’t have a car, only lives off the land doesn’t holiday I know many people on their 3rd or 4th (or 8th) holiday this year, eating food from around the world and buying stuff they want not need.

My car was covered in ladybirds this evening. Took me straight back to '76.

They have all those people all over Europe, where people from the UK like to go on big airplanes on holiday to enjoy that sort of weather. Literally no irony there.

Probably nothing to do with too many people accessing too few resources, obviously.

Unloaded washing machine and sweated my guts out. Wet tops crumpled up in carrier bag so they dont dry ready to wear. And wearing wet top until my late night bath so i can go to bed with wet hair.

Approx 58 million people in UK in 1996

And approx 69 million in 2025.

But no new reservoirs built in that time

Bloody hell. It’s summer. I voted YABU, but to be quite honest I didn’t like that response either. It is not too hot. It’s bloody lovely. It won’t last long (although I wish it would) and then we’ll go into autumn and the other seasons.
Stop catastrophising and get yourself to a BBQ.