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.

Bizarre that you can’t even respond to any of those valid point I’ve made, instead coming back with

well I hope you don’t go on holiday or have kids🙄

Well no, knowing you, it’s not particularly bizarre.

Whatever. No surprise you’re getting testy for no reason.

I’d say enjoy the sunshine but maybe not.

It did in 1976 and it did have other heatwaves through the years. When we were having a heatwave last week it was 21c in Sunderland. I’m in the south. And it also matched temperatures throughout history. Same old topic as 2022 then Silence last year and the year before when we had a shit summer. So much rain. It’s always been like this . I remember summer 1990 sleeping with window opens going to the med and temperatures matching. Climate has always gone around in cycle.

Climate change and AI, only thing that makes me feel not so bad about being childless 😕

The sooner that Homo Sapiens has been wiped from the planet the better.

The climate has always changed. And always will. Anyone who doesn't realise that is pretty dim.

Once you know that, then the idea of taking it into account when you build (for example not building on flood plains, better water management, better urban layout) seems only common sense.

However, for reasons unclear, we seem to think it is a much better use of precious resources to argue about it, as if the cause somehow makes a difference.

I'll be long gone when it's changed a bit more. In fact the change may take me with it, what with age and heatwaves not really being the best of combinations.

There are broader trends I’m sure but a couple of 30 degree days don’t make me think doom.

Other stuff might.

Not long to go

Climate change is a big issue. However, there is no need for the scaremongering that goes on with every heatwave. Every year we get heatwaves with temps over 30 degrees and headlines about how it's hotter than Spain. Just let people enjoy the sun before we are 'battered by Storm x'. Climate change is an issue every day of the year, not just during heatwaves.

I'm amazed 35% of posters think you're being unreasonable. Some people just can't get their heads out of the sand, can they? What will it take for some people to realise what's going on?

But it's not just about humanity. I'm not really bothered if the human race eventually dies out, but all of the animals and nature are suffering for our selfishness and they don't deserve this. We have/had a beautiful world perfectly designed for living beings and we are absolutely killing it. 😥

Well, I'd start by not building homes on land prone to flooding @Holluschickie. You can make adaptations to your home to minimise the damage should that occur. Make sure you have a bug out bag in the event of any emergency. Have a plan of what to do in the event of flash flooding. But I'm struggling to think of a scenario in which having every sunny day ruined by handwringing parents improves your odds.

I love the hot weather. I've been outside sunbathing all day.

Realistically what is the point of worrying about it, as I don't know what else we can do individually.

If big governments around the world are merely paying lip service by lecturing us, and not doing much policy wise, I can't make myself worried about it. If you don't agree with me then tell me what I should do please. Join stop oil, demonstrate, start a petition, what?

In the meantime I'll enjoy the nice weather, just as I did for every heatwave I experienced often for weeks on end back in the 70s and forwards to today.

Melting of the perma frost in eg Greenland, Siberia etc.

Destruction of the great rain forests

Glaciers in mountain regions receding to unprecedented levels.

Loss of ice levels at both poles at an alarming rate.

All this is documented. We rely on scientists to save our lives through medicine, provide us with the devices we’re all typing on, give us air travel, space travel…

Bit if they say: hang on a minute you should really stop releasing too much carbon or polluting our ecosystems…

we ignore them.

and that’s because we’re selfish!

In the future I think there will be parts of Africa and the Mediterranean that will be inhabitable and migration north will happen.
I'm not sure it's stoppable. It might just be what nature intended, or our path to self destruction.
Just my opinion though.

@Lonelycrab I 100% believe the planet is warming & climate is changing. However NASA aren’t the good guys! Every rocket launched thins the Ozone layer & every passenger per rocket adds 100x the carbon footprint of a long haul flight.

What I find so weird about everyone who harps on about '1976 I was there' is that there seems to be a wilful refusal to clock that an isolated event during cooler average temperatures is not the same thing as having '1976' every year

Put on your hoodie made from oil, and your hivis jacket made from oil, and your vegan shoes made from oil.
Travel across the country using fuel made from oil to where you can cause most disruption to the most people getting on with their lives.
Smugly ruin everyones work education and health by creating a multihour traffic jam and destroy some things by throwing paint at them.
When it gets too hot to have fun doing those things settle down with your electric device and broadcast a good telling off online.

That'll help.

By changing our behaviour, the hole in the ozone layer repaired. It was a huge success. These days we’re so stupid and untogether people would be running electoral platforms on their right to hairspray with CFCs.

Kinda agree with you, although I can understand the push to explore space as the next step in our evolution. Musk is probably far more a culprit these days in that regard now. I do think we need to sort out our problems on earth (hollow laugh) before trying to get to eg Mars though.
But I don’t doubt their scientific research wrt climate change. They’ve been surveying this stuff for a long time.

You remember it because it was an outlier

This is fine to mention, but the thread title is referring to the heat over a couple of days.

I don’t think that is the most telling thing, or it as they put it.

I have adjusted some behaviour, but it’s a personal thing for my dc pretty much. I still do stuff though that contributes to climate change, so not everything. Plus I have dc which is a factor already.

Each one has only lasted a couple of days though, it isn't like we have had a constant period of extreme temperatures.

We're 1% of the world's emissions. If we reach net zero tomorrow, it ain't gonna do shit