Is anyone else freaked out

[georgarina]

by how warm it is?

Passed someone in shorts this evening walking home.

It honestly gives me anxiety

@Dottydozet

This is the kind of thing that stops me panicking, thank you.

Yes, I'd also put my faith in a random poster on MN and not the thousands of climate scientists tearing their hair out pointing out the exact opposite.

And ramping up someone's anxiety helps them how etc.

Random people posting about being 'worried or terrified' aren't listening to the scientists, they're just flapping. No help to anyone.

@Postdatedpandemic

I'm sure the Earth will survive just fine without us humans. But most mums would like the planet to remain liveable on for their DC and GC.

Personally I'd like it to remain habitable for all the life enriching plants and animals too. We can't take them all down with us, shrugging "the world will survive".

Random people posting about being 'worried or terrified' aren't listening to the scientists, they're just flapping. No help to anyone.

Read my posts. Not what I'm doing.

Everyone always thinks that winter is December and January, but here (South) it's always been February and March that bite. I got married in March, 20 years ago, and I had to wear a big puffer jacket over my wedding dress between photos because it was so cold that I was literally freezing. My last wedding photos really show how cold I was despite the care everyone took to keep me warm.

In my experience the people who deny climate change are actually just overwhelmed and scared

Roffle, as we used to say in the Olden Days of MN.

There are lots of people whom I don't want to see in shorts at any time of the year, and it's nothing to do with climate change.

@HesterShaw1 they will evolve back to live without us.

If we take them all down then we won't be here.

@nenemum unbelievable......how the hell do you know what anyone does for a living? How patronising.

It's not exactly hard to find evidence on climate change is it? Pretty much no scientists deny its existence now.

t's not just the exceptional days

I repeat: The ten hottest years on record have all been this century,
with the hottest of these being the last five years.*

Well yes, you can repeat it but I'm not sure why you are trying to argue with me? What is happening today is an exceptional day. You are saying that the rate of exceptional days is becoming more prevalent.
So, therefore the averages are presumably higher.

It's nothing to do with exceptional days per se, it's about the overall trend. It being warm today isn't in and off itself an issue, it doesn't mean that it will be warmer next week or next new year will be warmer. It's the fact that the overall average temperature is getting warmer. So people could be equally or more concerned for example, if the average temperature for the year was 0.1 degree higher rather than freaking out because it's been unseasonably warm for a couple of days.

Watch 'Don't look up' on Netflix.

It isn't about an asteroid.

Then think ...

@Electriq and the Colorado fire that has just happened is just a bit of fire that just happened by accident. Right?! 😒😒😒

And all these freak weather events that are becoming more frequent are just the norm now …. I can’t be bothered to bring up graphs of the increasing frequency of these events and the rising levels of carbon emissions etc because you and other climate change deniers have convinced yourselves that it’s normal… you can ignore the science that’s in front of you, but you can’t ignore the effects of it.

The climate change deniers on here are very scary.
@Nenemum how bloody patronising, i have a science degree, a science PhD and over 40 published scientific papers ( i am not an environmental scientist though) but you don’t need any of that to know that climate change is no longer a theory.
This current mild weather is concerning as it is yet more evidence of the acceleration of this, increasingly erratic weather patterns.
It will indeed ultimately be much colder where I am in Northern England ( melting ice caps will remove the gulf stream for those who haven’t bothered to stay informed) but this a global issue, and we all need to making changes to our every lives, and putting pressure on governments to make more major changes.

I’m actually so pleased to see threads like this popping up. I feel less alone. I remember being told I had a tinfoil hat on when I suggested to someone that scientists had discovered a link between particulate matter (in air pollution) and mental health problems in young people. (I’d read a research paper that morning). I think the grief that comes with acceptance of how truly bad things are in the climate is a very hard burden for people to accept and the messenger matters. It’s also hard to disentangle the fact that recycling plastic religiously won’t actually affect global heating that much. That doesn’t make it less important! But Actions like talking about it global heating, voting differently and getting Governments to take action are as important. It’s hard not to feel bleak when you realise that the top 5 emitters of carbon are companies in dictatorship led countries who are about as likely to stop and change as I am to become Queen of England, but what else can we do? We have to find a way of living with the dissonance. And I try to forgive myself the days when I find waking up hard and the evenings when I can’t bring myself to work because I just want to shut my mind off from the awareness.

[quote Jacaranda75]@froobie global warming. They’ve been warning us for years.[/quote]
It’s literally going to be freezing on Tuesday…

@Nenemum

The last ice age was only twenty thousand years ago! - Earth is still in its settling period, she’s a toddler in age terms, despite being 4 billion years old.

She’s still fluctuating, and whilst human pollution is responsible for a comparatively small degree, your sitting on your electronic device, in your clothes made from probably mostly oil based plastics or other synthetic fabrics,, in your house warmed by fossil fuels, eating foods that have been flown across the world out of season, consuming all the latest plastic based toys and devices, flying abroad on holiday, and driving your big gas guzzlers....are worried about it being a little milder this week.

May hay while the sun shines. Go and get an allotment and grow your own food. The world isn’t ending, it’s still only just beginning.

Look Nenemum,

unless you’re a member of a scientific discipline, in which case, show your credentials and put everyone here to rights, you have no clue.

a mummy chat forum isn’t the place for hard scientific facts.....so no idea why you are warbling on about the age of the earth . you’re in the wrong part of the internet if you really know anything about this stuff. You'd be better off toddling off and having tea and cake.

And speaking of cake, don't you love having your scientific cake and eating your misogynistic cake along with it.

I despair, it's the frog in boiling water analogy isn't it

@VaccineSticker we're talking about UK weather right? not sure why a fire in colorado has any significance to that

we're talking about UK weather right? not sure why a fire in colorado has any significance to that

jts19

Jacaranda75

@froobie global warming. They’ve been warning us for years.

It’s literally going to be freezing on Tuesday…

Oh well there you go, proof that climate change couldn't possibly exist

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Hopeless isn't it

@RobotValkyrie you are in an excellent position to present to readers here a simple and unbiased scientific summary.

It's fucking freezing here in the Peaks. In a campervan, the wind whistling, can't fit any more jumpers on. I believe all the normal weather has decided to have a party in Buxton. Just enjoy your fine weather while you can!

@Electriq
You have just demonstrated a monumental lack of understanding of what you are trying to argue about.
Climate change is global. What is happening here and Colorado and all the freak weather events are climate change. 😑

Nothing strange about today I can remember a very warm November in the mid nineties and I’m told it snowed in June in the mid 70s.

@Georgyporky I'm in the north west and the postmen ( not women, though some women do ) all wear shorts all year! It started off as a challenge amongst them all I think and they decided to stick to it.
Great fun 😄

It's called global warming

We've fucked this beautiful planet up royally