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.

Interestingly NZ came up as one of the safest countries to live in with regards to global warming/one of the least affected in the article I read.
Oh dear, there goes that theory then.

We have had grape vines in our garden for 20 years! Sorry you are wrong.

We didn't worry about unusual weather in 1976. Or maybe the adults did, I was too young to notice. Or in the 1960s when deep snow was common. Or in the 1980s when we had two major storms, which decimated many trees. The Thames frequently froze over the course of several hundred years. Global warming or not, the Earth's climate has been through many cycles. I don't think humans will destroy the earth, but we may need to adapt our life styles in future decades.

What's the caused then?

Previous climate changes is all linked to CO2 due to extreme volcanic activity

We can't blame this on volcanos....

We had lots of hot summers in the 70s, 80s and 90s. And hosepipe bans.
This is what summer used to be!

I was going to say we have had grapes for years and the dentist has had his for 30 year he was proudly showing off photos of his vines the other month from last year.

Try telling that to the inhabitants of this country about a million years ago! Why can't people understand that planets go through warming and cooling periods in perpetuity? It is normal. Why people are all jumping on the bandwagon with doom and gloom I struggle to understand. Anyone remember 30 years ago we were all going back to an ice age?

You believe MSM? Come on this is what summer used to be like 60 years ago & yes I can still remember those school summer holidays. If the world is changing then all we can do is our bit without being over the top.

Climate change has always been a thing - ice age anyone? We’re speeding it up but things were never going to stay static on a ball of rock, metal and water spinning super fast around a ball of fire. Unrealistic expectations.

Recycle, put sun cream on and have a cocktail.

Enjoy the coolest summer of the rest of your life

It will take molten balls of lava falling from the sky for some to take notice.

yes a few days of hot weather is not indicative on its own of anything, but in context of what’s been happening across the world with extreme weather it clearly is a problem. The majority of experts are in agreement here. No one is saying you can’t enjoy the weather, personally, I hate it, but I get why others do like it. It is a problem overall though

and for those saying ‘oh well, humans should die out’, it’s not like humans are the only ones affected by climate change. If it’s bad enough to wipe us out, it could wipe out practically everything.

it may be too late, but governments should be doing more.

The 2022 summer heatwave I concur was actually dangerous. This is fine

Maybe. If it avoids the rapid cooling due to Gulf Stream collapse then that’s something

But let's be honest. Don't ignore this post. Challenge me. The only is only 1% if the world's total emissions. We have no impact whatsoever

Why is everyone going on about 1976? In 2022 the temperature got above 40°C. That's 5°C higher than the highest in 1976.

Thanks to the "evil" Tories the UK has massively increased it's renewable energy portfolio and decarbonise faster than the US or the EU

Get real. As if anyone can make a dent in any solution for climate change. The average joe doesn’t need to do a thing to be more “eco” it’s corporations, industries and billionaires that can make a dent in it. Go and have a drive through beef burger in an airconned car you’ll feel better!

It was hot in 1976. I’m enjoying the heat, it’s normally raining here.
The UK haven’t built any new reservoirs since 1992, that is a disgrace.

It actually rained a lot that Autumn. My umbrella that I took everywhere rusted away in my school bag.

It’s been like this in the South East in the summer for many years. Most years we get a heatwave or 2. Won’t last

This is a graph of global temperatures, inc 1976

Eta: it gets a lot worse after 2014 when the graph stops. The last few years have accelerated exponentially.

But we carry on not caring, because we can.

For now

Yes, I always feel like saying “Off you pop then, you first”.:

The basic science behind man-made climate change is breathtakingly simple and universally accepted by anyone with a sliver of creditability.

You can say you don't care but we know humans are causing the climate to change outside of natural cycles.

Britain is 1% of the world population and we have 1% of the world's emissions of CO2. We need to do our bit.

Sure climate changes with ice ages and everything but scientists understand why that happens. They understand about Orbital Precession, Obliquity and Eccentricity of Earth's orbit. They also understand about CO2. Climate will never stay the same but we can avoid the worst of global warming if we choose to do that.

Glitchymn1 · Today 19:27

pollyglot · Today 19:05
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.

Interestingly NZ came up as one of the safest countries to live in with regards to global warming/one of the least affected in the article I read.
Oh dear, there goes that theory then.

Weird weather episodes aside, I'm extremely glad to be living here. This will no doubt be the lifeboat of the world before too long. Envious eyes will be cast our way, and indeed, are now, as a place to survive the worst the climate can throw at humanity. At least we are not dependant upon the vagaries of the Gulf Stream - the apparently inevitable failure of Britain's heating system. We here in Northland are on a latitude comparable with Morocco. Southland has no Gulf Stream. and winds straight off Antarctica, but at least our climate has everything in between. Wheat, oats and barley all the way up to bananas, figs and grapes.