Is anyone else freaked out

[georgarina]

by how warm it is?

Passed someone in shorts this evening walking home.

It honestly gives me anxiety

I'm laughing so hard at the comments made on this post 😂

Me and my climate warming denying self apparently self (not just an avid weather watcher who looks at charts and data) am going to walk away from this.. Face-palm yourself into next week 😂

A mummy forum is exactly the right place to be talking hard science. We have given birth to the next generation of scientists.

When I went on a boat for ocean research in the eighties some of the crew nearly mutinied at the thought I would spend two nights onboard.
When my daughter did similar a couple of years ago the captain was female.

[quote LampLighter414]@froobie it's so freaky isn't it. I'm sure someone will try to claim that global warming nonsense.[/quote]
You keep your blinkers on and stay in your cave

I'm freaking out because I didn't notice how warm it was.
Shows how much I feel the cold these days. I never used to.

@Electriq keep ignoring the science if that makes you feel better 👏👏bye bye!

Yeah. Don't look up...

[quote Electriq]@VaccineSticker we're talking about UK weather right? not sure why a fire in colorado has any significance to that[/quote]
Jesus wept.

Global Warming has pretty much been replaced by Global Weirding
www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2021/04/why-we-need-talk-about-global-weirding

@Justleaveitblankthen that happens here too! I had a chat with my postman about it just before Christmas, he said it’s all harmless and daft ego nonsense at his depot, that’s why they do it.

I don’t really care if you’re a climate change denier or you think the world is about to end, that’s your opinion and your entitled to it, I have no interest in changing people’s opinions on anything, just reminding them that’s there’s better qualified forums than this to discuss the topic in an unbiased and purely scientific fact-based discussion.

This is a mummy chat forum, regardless of how much that offends you.

In the last few days of the 19th century it was so mild that primroses were blooming in a lot of woods throughout the South of England

[quote Postdatedpandemic]@HesterShaw1 they will evolve back to live without us.

If we take them all down then we won't be here.[/quote]
Evolve back??

Righty ho.

Can I suggest for those who paid no attention at all in their GCSE science courses that you watch the David Attenborough programme on colours ( 2nd episode)

@Georgyporky

Was the person in shorts a postman? In my area, postmen (not women) seem to wear shorts all-year-round. I don't think Royal Mail give them long trousers.

My friend's husband is a postman...he wears shorts cos his legs dry quicker if they get wet than trousers would do!

It’s the knock on effects that are worrying - hibernating species waking up when there’s no food, hedgehogs for example, insects like butterflies hatching due to warmth but there are no flowers to feed them. One part of the food chain dies off and the whole thing can collapse.

The absence of frosts will encourage higher levels of pests, bacteria, parasites and fungus - killing off or diminishing growth in trees, wild flora and our food crops.

So many people are blase but when food gets harder to obtain and our wild land dies off, you will be affected. You and yours won’t escape this by shrugging your shoulders.

@gravybones

Watch 'Don't look up' on Netflix.

It isn't about an asteroid.

Then think ...

Oh hell. That's so true - I hadn't thought of it that way. For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, it's nominally about an asteroid but the way the governments see it as a politically weighted event rather than looking to science is terrifying.

[quote LampLighter414]@froobie it's so freaky isn't it. I'm sure someone will try to claim that global warming nonsense.[/quote]
I'm going to presume this is sarcastic ... or are you denying there is global warming??

I’ve put bedding out to dry today, and brought in just to air. Not had heating o all day.

froobieit's so freaky isn't it. I'm sure someone will try to claim that global warming nonsense*

Sorry to derail but why does this post keep being quoted?! Isn't the poster agreeing with most of us?

My birthday is mid January, we always go away in the UK. Over the last 30 years there’s been a mixture snow, cold weather, rain, extreme wind and a meal on a hotel balcony on the south coast (not the only clement weather during that time just the only hotel with a balcony).

OK @HesterShaw1 I admit evolve back is a crap use of language. The point I was trying to make is that once homo sapiens have completed their extinction there will still be plants and animals. They will probably be different to the ones we have now, but they will be here long after us.

Yes was just talking to my mother-in-law about bitterly cold winters past and how there was frozen water (not really a lake - quite shallow) near where she lived and it froze for a couple of weeks and as a girl she was able to skate on it.

This year I’ve only had to defrost my car one morning.

Today we saw several boys in shorts in the park and majority of children had jumpers, no coats/ no hats/scarfs etc

Don’t Look Up is a great film.

@gravybones TV dramas are always viable sources of unbiased science have you also been ‘researching’ via YouTube videos and Netmums ....

Warm Christmas is not that unusual.
Christmas Day walks in two thin layers in 1970/1980s.

There’ll be a winter chill along soon enough.

No.