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.

Regardless of the prognosis for the planet/ the species longer term, do the people saying "Just enjoy the nice weather" have so little theory of mind that they fail to conceptualise that for some people it isn't even vaguely "nice"; it makes them / us feel hideously ill and unable to function?!

"Nice" is subjective not objective or absolute.

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

I replied to a post saying it was 3 days of extreme temperatures, my point was it has been more than 3 days. I never said they are consecutive.

And down here in the north of New Zealand, middle of winter, I'm sitting here at 5.30 a.m. and it's 16 deg.c. Last week it was 20deg in the afternoon. There has been rain heavier than I've ever seen it, sweet potato crop rotting in the ground, citrus covered in mould. It's here alright, folks. I suppose the only good thing about it is that the next ice age had been delayed by a few thousand years. But that will come too.

Apart that 99.9 percentage of scientist know that it's climate change not just global warming. I weirdly believe them more than my own experience of one year in the 70s.

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

Do you really find it weird @BarilynBordeaux? I think it's entirely to be expected of some.

I am relieved that most people selected "you are not being unreasonable" option.

Today was disgusting. The UK should never be this warm. Even just imagine how revolting and unhygienic everyone is walking around covered in sweat.

The pandemic changed everything for me in terms of Mother Nature deciding our fate in the end. We aren’t going to be able to control a large scale pandemic if it takes hold in the same way that we can’t reverse climate change.

You’re freaking out about the heat but I’m more worried about us becoming an extremely cold country due to the weakening of El Niño. Being freezing cold and having the have the heating on 10 months of the year sounds much more concerning than hot summers.

One day, the sun will engulf the earth anyway.

So there's a cheery thought to put everything in perspective.

All?
I can think of one who certainly isn't

The science of humans causing unnatural climate change is pretty much indisputable.

You can say - and plenty do - that you don't care, but it's happening.

Its not clear if you’re worried about it being too hot or too cold

Lovely.

The thread title in itself says climate change is really starting to bite. I think climate change is starting to bite; we have seen incredibly high temperatures all across Europe these last few weeks. It’s hot here now, and this summer in this country is already facing drought; crops will fail and my garden is already yellow.

Now how much you want to attribute that to “it’s just summer get over it” is up to you. Los Angeles disappeared in a fire storm just months ago, half of Canada and Europe was on fire last summer and this summer has only just begun. So it’s looking pretty clear where things are heading imo.

@CoastalCalm how are you doing now? I hope it's beginning to cool down wherever you are.

I suppose that depends where you are , and what you class as extreme. Where I am though, the v.high temps are only forecast for today/tomorrow/Sunday and then it's forecast for storms next week with lower temps. I am just fed up of people moaning about it , it is the middle of summer and its not unusual.

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Same and agree with last para

its Hot in summer and people are loosing their minds… honestly get a grip

or live in a top floor flat or in a tower block

I think walking around sweaty is the least of our problems . . .

I don't see doomaggeddon. I see summer.

Back in 1976, when the climate sensationalist fear was the imminent arrival of the next ice age, there was a hot summer after a very dry autumn and winter

... 15 consecutive days from 23 June to 7 July temperatures reached 32.2 °C (90 °F) somewhere in England. Furthermore, five days saw temperatures exceed 35 °C (95 °F).

Its summer

I agree.
Makes me so sad, sad for DD. I pray she doesn’t want children. It’s going to be a horrible world. Luckily I suppose I won’t be hear to see it.

The U.K. just thinks yay it’s hot.
Other countries will soon be uninhabitable, Greece is already burning every year. Where are all these people going to live.

If I could get to Canada I absolutely bloody would- but Canada doesn’t accept anyone Willy nilly like we do.

We’ve had a week long spell of decent weather in the height of summer. Calm down.

To quote George Carlin "The planet is fine, the people are fucked!"

Once we kill ourselves off, the planet will recalibrate and enter a new age. It's a shame as there is so much beauty in the world right now. After we leave it'll be just the roaches, crocodiles, and W H Smiths.