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.

To be fair we are not matching European weather they have it in the 40’s.

Some people are pointing out it’s been like this for years as if that’s some proof that climate change isn’t real when that’s quite literally the opposite. Do you think climate change occurs once? Rather than a slow process that is taking decades. The signs have existed for many many years and governments have refused to engage because it’s costly and no one country alone can make a difference so this will continue until it’s untenable

No I follow and read scientific papers. Because I studied science. The vast, vast, majority of well educated climate scientists have clear and decisive evidence of our rapidly changing climate. Ice cores, Polar ice caps. Changing rainfall patterns. Coral bleaching. Retreating glaciers. Seasonal shifting. All linked to climate gases increasing in the atmosphere. Climate gases discovered to create a warmjng effect at the time of the industrial revolution. Not new.

Too hot in the Artic and Greenland (leading to melting ice-caps) could lead to it being significantly colder in the UK (collapse of AMOC/Gulf Stream).

ThePhantomoftheEcobubbleOpera · Today 20:01

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.

Chacun à son goût...

I have a holiday home sitting squarely upon the most active volcanic zone in the world. It's on a glorious lake, surrounded by bush and serenity. Life is short. Life is uncertain. Rather a natural explosion than a nuclear one. I'll take my chances.

Most British people aren’t designed for excessive temperatures.

The ozone layer is actually recovering

Yep Where i am we have had just one week of snow in recent years in December 2022. Last winter i did not need to wear my winter coat. The most i needed was a thin denim jacket over a jumper

Utter nonsense. I'm old enough to remember the summer of '76. This is not unprecedented. Its summer - you all be moaning soon enough when its cold and dark too no doubt. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Yes it’s completely normal even though scientists say this has actually become a very serious situation

Carry on as you always have done. Consume! Be happy! Don’t care about the future of the next few generations, your children’s childrens.

You do you, and take as much as you want and don’t let anyone tell you you can’t!

Don’t worry guys, a bunch of people on mumsnet say there’s no problem. Vast majority of experts may disagree, but what do they know?

I’m old enough to remember the summer of 76 too, and intelligent enough to know you’re talking self absorbed, selfish rubbish.

Look at the science data re temperatures and take off your rose tinted spectacles.

Utter nonsense. I'm old enough to remember the summer of '76.

Do you have amnesia re the rest of the decade or the following one?

Where are people saying that it's not a problem? Just that climate change is no more of a problem today - for most people- in this nice weather than on other typical days when the weather is unremarkable.

Gb news say it too, so it must be right,
Shirley

"I just know there will be countless morons saying 'its called summer"

Well go on Twitter and you'll find exciting 'proof' from the really intelligent people that this is caused by chemtrails and 'they' are doing this so they can stay safe in their bunkers until every one of us is dead. Which at this rate is going to be before Xmas so at least we can save some money and the tricky present buying.

Nibiru is not helping. Having a whole planet hovering just above the clouds (it hides behind them) is bound to have some effect.

The Pole Shift is due and that's going to tip the world over so California is at the North pole and freezing. I guess California was picked because it figures in many disaster movies.

CERN is of course behind a lot of it. Making it worse by opening portals to hell and to other planets and dimensions.

The good news is that the US can choose who gets the hurricanes using HAARP so we'll be ok providing we are nice to President Trump.

And of course Jesus will be here soon to make it all better so no need to worry at all. We're in good hands.

South of England. I remember very hot summers?

The children will be on their summer holidays in a week or so - it usually changes then after they’ve boiled in school for weeks!

More seriously - I’m enjoying the sunshine but I am also aware that we didn’t have our usual spring rain this year. I’m just hoping we don’t have all the flooding again when the weather does break.

The summers is the 1980s were, for the most part, cool and wet.

My part of the north has only been particularly sunny today. Are you referring to the south?

It's particularly hot being heavily pregnant and then in labour in a heat wave, it was nearly 40c where I lived with DC, felt a bit scary tbh.

@MumWifeOther I remember crème eggs that were massive...

South of England. I remember very hot summers?

Perhaps you should google?

The summers is the 1980s were, for the most part, cool and wet.

Yep, mine in London were and data backs that up. @MumWifeOther must have lived in a micro climate!

I dunno, last summer was absolutely shite. It was cold and we had one week of decent weather.

We went to the beach after work/school today hoping for a cold swim and the sea was warm. I've lived here forever and couldn't believe how warm it was.