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 wouldn't be worried about this if I were you. I'm thinking, great this is saving me money on my heating bills
Incidentally it's becoming much colder after tomorrow, more like normal temperature for January

It’s not warm here! It’s peeing down cold and windy

@Notaordinarygirl

Just wondering how warm it is where you are from? I'm in OZ and we had our coolest and westest start to summer. Things are starting to hear up now though

It was around 15 degrees for a couple of days, NYE and NYD.

@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.

I'm not sure whether this was serious or a p*SS take but either way it made me chuckle 😂. But you are correct in saying postman wear shorts all year round. You would think they'd want to wear trousers for protection from dogs and other hazards lol.

Yes! I'm in Scotland and permanently freezing. Just yesterday I walked the dog in leggings and a t-shirt, and a thin hoodie. I don't dress like that in the spring, I've always got a big puffer jacket on when walking ddog.

Also was in the loft at 2am the other morning getting a fan out for ds, it was too hot for him to sleep.

We may have under 1% of emissions but because we are a country that consumes rather than produces we have about 2.6% of global consumption.
Isn't it nice that we still have slaves to make stuff for us who can take the flack as nasty dirty manufacturers.

We need to change, every single one of us and we need to vote for even more change.

We are, after all, or so our politicians tell us, one of the richest countries in the world and the 6th largest economy. Or 7th, whatever it is now.

That makes us very far from guiltless - and very very far from helpless.

Yep! 17 degrees yesterday what the actual..?!

It's normal, it happens. It's called weather.

It is a wee bit unsettling.
I miss the snowy winters of my childhood (80s) and otherwise bright crisp icy winter days

The world has been through worse, it will get through this.

Humans haven't though - I kind of care about humans and how catastrophic it could become in the intervening period between us being here and not being here...

It has been this warm before. About 30 years ago, we had a New Year's day party in the Highlands where we were all in T- shirts and shorts. The next week we were up to our knees in snow. Nothing to freak out about... Just island weather.

@DottyHarmer

It doesn’t matter if you recycle or reuse your hemp tote bag.

The population is the problem. People are still having 10, 12, 14 children - it’s simply disastrous.

Please do remember that many of the people having large families are in the developing world. Raising a child there uses up approximately one tenth of the resources used in the West to raise a child. Put bluntly, in terms of environmental impact, 10 surviving children in the developing world have he same impact as 1 in the West. Yes people need to have fewer children, but that applies to people in the West the most, who need to not have more than one (I’m a hypocrite for saying this but hey ho) and also need to be less wasteful in raising their child (again I’m a hypocrite as I came a bit late to all this sustainability stuff). Unfortunately the arguments regarding population often end up essentially saying we need fewer people in places like sub Saharan African, which reads as ‘the world needs fewer brown people’, when the West and China use the most resources per person.

@Mirw

It has been this warm before. About 30 years ago, we had a New Year's day party in the Highlands where we were all in T- shirts and shorts. The next week we were up to our knees in snow. Nothing to freak out about... Just island weather.

The Winter of 1980/81 was unusually mild, right up to the end of February. I remember walking between our village and the next (to the pub) at about 5pm wearing T-Shirt and shorts (Midlands). It was uncanny, but a top radio song at that time was Southern Freeze by a band called Freez. March was horribly wet and at the end of April 1981 we had deep snow.

But - the overall trend is that temperatures are rising, weather is more concentrated, be it rain = flooding or heat = drought.

The 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics was “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”. It is undeniable fact.

@Postdatedpandemic I didn't mean it will all be fine by Tuesday ffs. I just meant as a PP said, we've had pretty mild winters before, this NYD obviously broke a record but why everyone feels the need to be hysterical about everything all the time and create panic I don't know. Btw just fyi, I do my utmost to do my bit for the planet in EVERY aspect of my day to day life. With the things I have no control over I don't see how panicking helps.

@Cocoabutterformula

inheritancetrack

Jesus Christ another one citing Tuesday for the reason it's all going to be just fine

Not what I'm saying

@Cocoabutterformula I do all I can in my power to help this planet and my childrens/grandchildrens etc future but chatting about it on here to cause panic (like all the Covid threads) won't help anyones mental health. Don't take things that people say so LITERALLY.

@LittleRoundRobin concise and to the point. I love you.

lifeinlimbo2020

I feel panic - not sure that's actual the word for what I'm feeling - foreboding maybe, for how quickly it is all unfolding. I've followed climate change for over 40 years and yes I suppose I do feel an underlying sense of panic - if things carry on as they are it will make COVID look like a walk in the park. I came onto this thread because I thought I might find posters who understand my feelings about it and have done, it's a comfort I suppose. I'd so dearly love to be shown to be wrong more than anything but that's not going to happen. People going on about how it was warm one day in February 1984 are either spectacularly missing the point or being deliberately obtuse.

This thread at 445 messages is equal to about 2.5 kg of CO2.

The daily amount of CO2 released due to worldwide internet use is truly staggering - about 14,000,000 tonnes. That's before tweets, picture messages, video calls, etc.

This is where the most waste is in my view.

Magnited

It's everywhere, that's what's so scary - how do we go back to preindustrial usage? We can't, we need to move away from fossil fuels to generate all this power asap, like right now, I've been thinking that for 35 odd years and yet here we are....

We have to learn to live with less. We have to accept less. As another poster said upthread, ration travel, feed local.

I do not believe it is too late to save humankind. It just needs to work differently. Those that disbelieve climate change and fight economic and societal change will suffer the most.

It was about 10 degrees in the very South where I am, rained hard on and off but quite windy. Definitely not January weather but wasn't warm enough to make me ditch my coat outside. As the evening has gone on though it seems to have got warmer..

I remember some very warm January days aged 7-10ish in the early 80s - suburbs of London. I remember playing out after school in summer clothes and wondering why my parents were telling me it wasnt summer!

But....... yes Im very concerned about weird weather. I worry that trees might think its spring etc. Cant be good news.