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.

Tell that to the Texan families caught up in the flooding - don’t think they will think anything is lovely again.

Thankfully all our world leaders are fighting determinedly to fix this problem.

I agree, OP. I feel like I live in a hot country now.

Sorry to hear this

Trump isn’t - he doesn’t think there is a problem

Jesus, can we have five days of summer without the existential dread?

😂

Camp Mystic was built in a flood zone A. It was a once in a several hundred year flood, it was absolutely not unprecedented.

Is that a joke?

I can recall summers like this when I was a kid. July 1960 was comparable I believe.

I've got no doubt climate change is real but I'm skeptical at the speed we are being told it's happening. In the life of our planet, a decade or so is a blink of an eye...

When it's like this at Christmas I'll pay attention...right now...hot in summer? Yep

Not denying climate xhanges here, but I have to agree.
Every summer and every winter for last 2 decades living in UK I hear "but we never have this weather, that's why we are not used to it"...

1976 springs to mind. I was 4 and definitely remember the heat. And the ladybirds.

In my part of western Scotland, today is the first warm & sunny day of this summer. There has been no prolonged heat wave here. All climate change seems to be doing for us here is making it nearly always overcast and rainy.

Kerr County, where the camp was located is actually a hillier part of Texas than surrounding counties. Four months of rainfall in two hours contributed to the disaster.

If it's warm in summer....oh, it's climate change
If it cold and rainy all summer, oh it's climate change.
Ditto for every other season.

It is not that I don't think that there's climate change or that we don't have a part to play in that change. But the sheer glee and enthusiasm for rustling up a bit of original carbon footprint sin with every passing weather observation makes me feel like these doomsters are the modern day sandwich board 'The End is Nigh' killjoys.

It's not just about one hot summer. If you google it, you can find predictions of how much of UK coast will be under water due to rising sea levels. It is a lot. Enough to make you think would I want to live in a seaside town.

Unfortunately we catastrophically fucked it.

Why is that funny

Yet last year we had week after week of rain

We need to adapt store water when we get too much use it when we get too dry

We are not "much" hotter than the recent past my nan was growing grapes in her garden 20 years ago they grew from regular supermarket grapes by mistake

This happened in 1976 we had standpipes shared baths and a ladybird infestation we also had a local measles epidemic

Bearing in mind the past is a good prediction of the future why haven't we learned and adapted in fifty years?

The human race needs to adapt or die

I am really worried. My flat is unbearably hot. This is climate change for sure.

(Before you ask me what I am doing about it, I don't eat meat, and I don't have a car)

We have catastrophically fucked it, yes, but the planet will be fine, it will kick us off like fleas.

I am not denying climate change, for a second, but we'll all be out of here for one reason or another in the blink of an eye.

If it's warm in summer....oh, it's climate changeIf it cold and rainy all summer, oh it's climate change.

It's the extremes, it's not unusual to be warm in summer but it is unusual to have 30 degrees in June.

I am trying to develop this level of detachment but the horrible scenes from Texas - and indeed all over the world- are really terrifying. Logically it's no loss to the world if my family is swept away. But I can't just shrug it off like that.

July 1960 was comparable I believe.

Was it?

This is Woodhead reservoir today