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.

It's widely accepted a asteroid took out the dinosaurs, & caused catastrophic change across the globe

No thanks. I will do my bit as far as I can. I don't need or want those.
I agree large corporations need to do more.

Exactly!

Yes climate changes is happening but I also just think it's a hot day to be honest.

This is up there with one of the dumbest takes I’ve read on here..

Blackberries are fully ripe round where I live, I am sure that this used to happen In September, my montbresia has bloomed and is now starting to die and all the leaves are brown and dry. It used to flower late August to early September, the last bit of colour in my back yard. I was really startled to see it flowering in late June. The seasons are blurred and no longer distinct and it must be really messing with the breeding season for wildlife . Personally I hate this itense heat, makes me feel nauseous and brings on migraine. It must be hell for pregnant women, the very young, the very old and people with chronic health conditions.

And what happened to Winter? I’m in the South but even here we’d have frost on the grass for weeks in the Winter - all completely normal. Now, for the last few years, we’ve had very, very little. Last Winter we had one day of frost.

This isn’t normal Summer heat - and all our seasons are becoming mucked up. It’s frightening to see, as even when my youngest DC was a toddler we still had loads of frosty, icy days, but now we have none. No need for gloves or hats. Not one day in Winter. This affects the plants; the insects; and the viruses and bacteria. Nothing is killed off by a nice cold snap.

I can't read this thread because I just know there will be countless morons saying 'its called summer'. The stupidity of this is beyond belief, we are experiencing record highs, increasing all the time.

It's not 'called summer' you blithering ignorant simpletons. It's called the UK turning into a hot country which we are totally unprepared for.

Unless you get that one in four chance megaquake over the next 50 years so violent that it rips the country in half, then you can keep it.

Thing is, instead of hand wringing, blaming this that or the other and trying to stop the inevitable, we should be looking at ways to help us live and cope with these changes.
But, but , but! That doesn't make a sexy headline, give some little Swedish troll false fame or enable polluting countries and companies carte blanche to make everyone feel guilty.

I agree. But the UK's emissions is negligible

When I was little in the 80s, it was hot every summer, all summer.

The dinosaurs were quite literally impacted - by an asteroid. It wasn't climate change that did for them. Well, not caused by natural causes anyway.

It's amazing how many people just can't accept that climate change is happening faster than it has before. Heaven forbid that they stop driving an SUV or go ski-ing.

I was this hot last year and many years before.

When you hear about floods take note of "worst for 30 years" or "worst for 50 years" which means it happened before.

Don't get me wrong. The planet has cycles and we might have to deal with changes, but the sky is not falling.

Remember humans manage in Alaska & Iceland, We live in Deserts and Jungles. Hurricanes sounds scary to us in the UK, but to many Americans and others too they are normal.

Loads we can do individually

• demonstrate
• write to MPs
• manage our own lifestyles
• educate others
• educate ourselves
• talk about it
• avoid buying from abd visiting countries not doing enough (USA, India, Australia)

1% of emissions produced in UK because we don't manufacture anything... what about all the emissions in China and rest of Asia to produce and ship everthing we use to UK?

It’s not lovely. Where in the country are you? What health conditions do you have? What job do you do? Do you have a home, if so a flat or a house? A garden?

People are suffering and dying and even the biggest hot weather lovers I know are struggling.

It's not just about climate change, though. It's about air pollution which causes many thousands of deaths a year

Please turn off your engines when you are stationary!

Yup - too freaking hot - temp in my house is 30.9. that's with all advice to open windows early, shut them when temp outside more than inside, close curtains, have fan in main room.

However, come November we will be complaining about how cold it is & looking for tips on how to keep yourself warm.

Feeling lucky that our bedroom faces North so stays cool.

China does create a lot of emissions but it is also trying to mitigate them, for example by making electric cars rather than fossil fueled cars.

When I was little in the 80s, it was hot every summer, all summer.

@MumWifeOther where did you live? The UK didn't have long hot summers throughout the 80s...

Scientists predictions aren't great.

Exactly.
remember last summer ?

is this you’re first time experiencing a heatwave 🤨 where you been?

Fair enough.