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 was at school in the sixties and we took our chairs and tables outside.

There was none of this drama in the old days!!
It's just rubbish..

Get on with your lives and worry more about all the illegal migrants using our resources.

Spot the GBeebies entertainment fan

Aha......

I don't have TV!

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

Hopefully I won't be stupid though 🤞🏼

So what. You probably watch it online. Or worse, your own you tube research
really blind to the irony of ignoring climate change and being annoyed re immigration…

I hope the planet survives and humans don't

I just can't get worked up about it, realistically there's nothing we can do about it and nothing is going to drastically change in our lifetime.

I just think there's been so much change in the world since time began, this is just a tiny fragment of time.

Just relax.
I'm old and there have been plenty of hot summers over the years.
Some even hotter than now....

The planet will survive for sure, the problem is that humans will likely take every other species down with them.

I am always slightly sceptical about the data, I visited a cave last year and the guide was showing us the rock layers and telling us how many million years ago each layer was from, he came to a section where he said there was several million years "missing" from the layers, it wasn't just missing in one section it was missing from the whole cave system, no one has been able to explain how or why that is. I just don't trust that scientists can be absolutely certain about climate cycles from thousand and millions of years ago.

Yes it's here and it's worrying and scary.what is also sad is that my son who's in his 20 s said you don't need to worry about wars what will kill his generation is climate change.parts of the world will become uninhabitable, there will be mass migration and food and water shortages

Here you go:

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/terrifying-map-shows-uk-seaside-8849754

The UK has really dragged its heels on political commitment - it's thought to be too damaging economically to do anything that might actually help.

It's not just down to us, it's global. But we have a history of leading the way for example after the great smogs we got our shit together and cleaned things up.

We need that kind of moment that brings people together on this, and unfortunately it will likely be a great tragedy that is the catalyst.

The answer is in your bloody post You have a garden Those of us in flats dont We are in a sealed box

My parents and grandparents talked about scorching summers. I remember many hosepipe bans as a kid, grass going brown. To me its just different each year, sometimes like this and then mild for a few years and then another scorcher.

That is impossible

Go to a park. Take a walk. It’s not my fault you don’t have a garden. Let me enjoy some sunshine in peace.

When people write "I'm old" I used to think they were in their 90s. Usually they're about 62.

It has; the summer of 1976 was talked about for years!

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/air-con-for-your-home-could-become-part-of-7-5k-heat-pump-grant-3799614?srsltid=AfmBOornFGHqCSEw0ZrfEOQC2U-zfcjGjfyh_e8yWys3LdhgqcAF7b_F

That you Nigel?

Wetherspoons closed?

We account for a lot more than 1%. It's just that the consequences of "buying a few bits" from Shein or Temu or wherever aren't added to the UK's tally. In Beijing there is sometimes so much smog that you can barely see the end of your own nose, but those factories are only belching out pollution because there is a voracious international appetite for the other crap they produce. We can't rely on China and India to feed the national shopping addiction and then claim we have no power to intervene in the consequences of our own consumerism.

It's the mass exodus of people from hot places that's going to start civil wars.
The South to The North.

I've got my eye on Scotland - they always seem to stay nice and cool in Summer.

I suppose I'm saying that, irrespective of how scary the future may appear, we face it best from a place of authenticity. And if that means staying present with uncomfortable feelings (worry, grief for current and future losses, rage, frustration, regret, impotence, hopelessness etc) it's a more truthful expression and connection with the issue than any number of other responses we may choose to try out, such as the rhetorical bypassing I described.

So, although I am intensely uncomfortable when I think about a future in which disabled DC is struggling without me in a world undergoing immense change and trying to adapt at pace, with ever dwindling resources, to the changing climate, I refrain from trying to reframe the dread I feel by dint of some kind of philosophical sleight of hand in an attempt to make myself feel better.

I'm not in the UK and can remember one year, it would have been around 1990, hearing on the news about how hot it was in the UK and people couldn't cope (while we rolled our eyes), so you are right, this is hardly new.