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.

Adapt or die.

Yep. I'm seriously thinking about looking into air conditioners, have said that for years but may have no choice now. Decent ones seem very expensive but it's going to be yet another necessary expense before long. Staying up cause I don't want to go to bed in this heat.

https://inews.co.uk/news/housing/britains-homes-made-retain-heat-shame-about-35c-summers-3794225

I was around then, but too young to remember it. I do remember long hot summers later in the '60s, however.

The summer of '79 was really warm. We had a greenfly plague then.

I remember it because I was in a Russian summer school at the Uni of East Anglia.

I didn't vote- cos I didn't agree with either option.

It wasn't that hot here today at all.

I remember when we were young. My dad would open both the front and back doors. Have the fan on and windows open. And we would still be too hot.

Today the only reason I only had the windows open in the kitchen. It is always cooler outside than inside.

Our kitchen is open plan with a conservatory so the kitchen gets really hot and warms up the whole house. So we just keep the windows open and if it's a really hot day try and keep the kitchen door shut. ( the house was like that when we bought it and the kitchen is freezing in the winter.)

We need to fix it. And hopefully within the next couple.of years. But apart from that it's not too hot at all. And the only the reason the house is a bit warmer than I'd like is because of the Conservatory.

People remember the summer of 76 because it was so unusual and that is why it stands out in memory and has been the background of a few novels. It is brilliantly evoked in Barbara Vine's thriller "A fatal inversion" which really captures the seemingly endless days of piercing blue cloudless skies and suffocating nights.

Which is basically the definition of climate.

Oh charming! You'll be 50 before you know it.

Climate change has been happening for millions of years. It's part of a cycle.

Lovely if you have an air con in an office or if you’re sitting in your garden in a paddling pool or lazing at the beach etc . This country is not set up for this type of weather. The windows literally don’t even open more than couple of inches in many houses and offices! And the poor kids are roasting in classrooms, all radiating heat, melting down.

windows dont open more than a couple of inches in flats either Health and safety, Window restrictors The taxi driver who very helpfully helped me with my shopping up the stairs tonight got a blast of the stifling hot air as we opened the door to my flat He said "you could leave the door open and let some air in from the (communal) stone hallway
Should have seen his face when i told him we arent allowed to as the door to our flat is a fire door!!

Happening over millions of years over quite large timescales- thousands or more years.

The current (incredibly rapid) climate change we are experiencing now has happened over a handful of decades, and is inarguably down to a very sharp rise in CO2 in our atmosphere. That’s what all of science tells us. There isn’t any credible data that tells us otherwise.

What? It was hotter than this in 1976.

It's all nonsense.

The rules that turned flats into sweat boxes didnt exist in 1976

Ironically those windows and doors that are supposed to be there for your safety are also the detriment to your own health in highly dangerous temperatures like today. It reached 34 degrees outdoors in the shade here. Indoors was worse. This country is not designed for extreme heat.

The weather was so nice at 21 degrees in the South East beginning of June - if it could stay at 21 degrees I would be happy ! how can you love 30 degrees! You obviously are a SAHM or retired and not having to work!

Erm dramatic much!

General consensus is yes this is anthropogenic and at faster rate than we have recorded anywhere else in earth history (caveate being of course that our records are relatively low resolution -and very very low resolution when we have to look at the rock record).

conversely the CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been higher in the earths past and there are numerous feedback mechanisms which allow the earths climate to vary. Fact is as modern humans we are very intolerant to change! Which is a problem really given our dynamic environment

I’m a food tech teacher. No air con and all ovens on. Finished work, popped on my shorts and fired up the barbecue, sat outside enjoying 34 degrees until the sun went down and the mozzies came out. Ice lolly’s at the ready.
How can people not enjoy this weather?

There are some amazing scientific advances being made towards clean energy.

Yes we're in deep shit and everyone needs to be playing a small part in trying not to make it worse to give science time to find solutions.

We donate to schemes to offset carbon emissions, we've paid for a lot of trees but also other schemes to reduce fossil fuel consumption in various countries. We dont consume lots of tat.

Not generally a conspiracy theorist but wouldnt put it past some people to release another virus to kill loads of people off.

How can people not enjoy this weather?

Because - and I know this may come as a shock - we aren’t all the same?

I agree. But there seems a lot of assumptions that we are all suffering in the heat and scared of climate change. Some of us, believe it or not, having been waiting years for a week or two of deliciously hot weather. For once I’m not feeling damned depressed to live in this shit hole of a country.

I was a young mother in 1976 and it was hotter than this!
And it went on for a long time...

Oh come on OP, we have very, very few warm days compared to most countries. Most of the year it’s cold and miserable.

I don’t deny climate change, but the earth was never meant to be eternal. One day it will be absorbed by the sun.