Scorching 40°C temperatures ‘will soon become the new normal for the UK’
Scorching 40°C temperatures ‘will soon become the new normal for the UK’
Posted by Wagamaga
Scorching 40°C temperatures ‘will soon become the new normal for the UK’
Scorching 40°C temperatures ‘will soon become the new normal for the UK’
Posted by Wagamaga
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Britain is on course to experience regular ‘super heatwaves’ that will have a devastating impact on the country, a senior meteorologist has warned.
Jim Dale said that the UK and the rest of the world is in danger of ‘boiling over’ as extreme heat becomes commonplace due to climate change.
Mr Dale spoke as the country bakes in a third heatwave that is predicted to bring 30C-plus (86F+) temperatures this weekend.
The blazing weather is expected to last longer and extend further north and west than the hot spells we’ve already seen this year.
Mr Dale has spent the last 40 years warning about the impact of global warming and now believes the planet is close to a tipping point
Need trees on every street.
We’ve really fucked it.
Must adapt now by setting up infrastructure etc to cope with the new normal. Unfortunately it looks like trying to do something about global warming just won’t do
I think we can all see this coming – the worst thing is that summers are getting hotter earlier than ever, so we’re not just enduring a few days of exceptional heat, but rather a lot of hot days with a few additional super-heated days somewhere. It feels like in the next month we’re gonna have another heatwave that stretches into the high 30s.
There will be tens of thousands of extra deaths a year, even if we have a big airconditioner push.
10 years ago, people lived in their car because they couldn’t afford a home.
Today, people live in their car, one of the few spaces where many of us have air con, to escape the heat.
We’re in the find out stage of ‘fuck around and find out’ for climate change. We need to adapt infrastructure and public spaces and buildings to cope with it
It’ll never not be infuriating how little humans care for their environment.
Hell even the facilities management at my workplace still won’t put in decent cooling because “Oh it’s only a few days a year it gets hot”, yeah bro I’m sure that excuse will pan out when a few million of hardware blows up because of overheating.
Everyone buy sunglasses, shorts and fans. It will rain for 5 years straight.
Never mind, professional grifting scumbag Nigel will soon be saying that we’ve done away with woke weather and woke climate change and boiling our tits off is British weather at its best
I wonder if the puffa jacket & balaclava kids will keep up that style as they get older… gonna be some rough summers ahead for them…
I genuinely can’t handle it. I have POTS and I’ve been having crazy heart palpitations and dizziness. On Friday my heart rate wouldn’t go below 100bpm all day.
We’re gonna need to invest in air conditioning indoors then. It’s a fuckin nightmare trying to sleep
I’ve been saying this for years, until the US take Climate seriously we are fucked and the only thing that is going to make them take it seriously is a Climate Event Disaster that claims thousands of lives.
I did say China however I was wrong as u/nate390 said, they are leading the world in transiting to green Energy.
‘It’s jUsT sUmmER’ – 80% of Facebook
When I was 5 or so I was told about the hole in the Ozone layer and global warming and I think we that moment I decided not to bring kids into this world.
We fixed the hole but are allowing people to spew nonsense about the latter and stymie attempts to reduce the warming.
Trees and renewable energy should be our top focus
They need environmentally friendly A/C. It’s getting bad, let’s work towards a sensible solution.
The vulnerable, as per usual, are getting pummelled in every way
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Bye bye insects. Bye bye flowers. Bye bye plants. Bye bye crops.
Well done everyone. We absolutely fucked it. We known for decades and known how to fix it, but just could not be fucking bothered.
Well done us.
Scotland looking more and more appealing by the day
Oh for fuck sake, I escaped Southern Europe partially due to the heat and definitely am not going back firstly for the scorching heat, and it is reaching me all the way up here, plus with houses built abysmally to fight it.
I guess next step is moving to Scotland, maybe that’ll buy me a few more years
We’ve seen 2 days if I remember correctly in 2022 with 40 degrees. They were going mental saying the years after will be insane with 40
Degrees for weeks on end etc.
Yes we will get 40 degrees again and I am actually surprised we haven’t seen another yet, but they need to stop scaring people so much
Will they now add air conditioning to buildings and homes?
We in Britain aren’t in full control of global emissions so I’m assuming things are going to get significantly worse before they get better. Realistically global warming isn’t going to stop and reverse for a very, very long time. Even if the world goes full Net Zero tomorrow there’d still be too much greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. So we’re already a fare bit screwed whatever happens.
It doesn’t really matter if it’s 40 or 37. We’re going to have to spend a lot of time and money modifying housing and infrastructure to cope with hotter and hotter summers. Most of Britains hosing stock is simply not designed for this. So there’s a lot of expensive change to come.
Eurgh.
Ginger people should be exempt from life in these temperatures. Holyfuckenshit.
It’s sad to say but we’ve lost the race on climate change. Eventually economics will mean we’ll move over to renewables but that’s no victory, it’s just greed winning out in the opposite direction. By then glaciers and ice caps will have melted, permafrost will be leaking methane in to the atmosphere and sea levels will have wiped out coastal cities. Tens of percent of animal life will go extinct. I can’t see how this won’t happen.
Scotland cut down 19 million trees in the last 5 years
Cities and urban areas could help combat this heat by planting trees, and ensuring trees are kept in place where they already are planted. People whine about trees dripping sap on their cars but I’d rather have sap on my car than hot concrete and no shade.
Honestly if councils want to do something to help their cities, plant trees. Not only does it look nice, but it actively helps thanks to evapotranspiration.
Since so many governing bodies refuse to acknowledge that climate change and global warming have been exacerbated by fracking, fossil fuels etc and don’t want to use greener energy sources, trees are the way to go. The public can only use what energy is available to them. Especially when they rent, or they don’t have the money to afford to switch to entirely green energy.
It’s alright screaming ‘Give the UK AC!!!’ but that doesn’t solve the issue outdoors. We should be protecting cities and people with green spaces first and foremost imo.
People don’t realise how much the heat will impact every aspect of our lives. It will cause food shortages, water shortages, kill people etc. it will kill off wildlife and affect insect populations. Already you can see a decline in insects. Fewer insects means less pollination etc.
But no, global warming is ‘a lie’ and climate change is ‘made up’. :/
Air to air heat pumps (which can heat and cool) amd solar panels should be required on all new builds.
This is actually scary. I fear that there will be more excess deaths due to heatwaves like what happened in 2022 and 2003
It’s so cute people thinking we have time to stop anything now with such small measures as are getting proposed. Either we come together as a species globally to work towards fixing it, or it’s all pointless. Anyone who thinks we will come together globally, is nothing short of delusional. Pray you aren’t alive to see the fallout is the best you can hope for.
Genuine question and I’m not a ‘climate denier’ but when is this tipping point? We’ve heard it continually mentioned the past 5+ years?
We don’t care until the consequence are here and it’s far too late. Classic human selfishness.
I am having proper Aircon fitted in the house, because if it’s becoming like other hot countries here we may as well do what they do and Aircon their homes to make them comfortable
It may sound silly to people but I think the country should adopt a bright roof and walls strategy in this country
Bright roofs and walls would help reflect some of the heat away making home cooler . Think like that day your wearing a black shirt vs a white shirt and how much more heat you seem to generate from the black shirt
Maybe painting roof tiles and brick white or bright colours like Spain do as usually if you look at their homes they are white with a orange like roof
I imagine our roofs before were darker colours to help absorb the heat but honestly thinking about how much warmer the seasons are is it really that efficient anymore ? Do we even get say enough sun in the colder months to see it have an effect?
It’s not going to get better until the worst polluters do something and we stop pretending that our net zero policies, such as sourcing oil from the Middle East, instead of the North Sea is an improvement. It’s worse for the environment to ship goods across the world!
Tine to stop rejecting aircons, it needs to be a standard for every house
Dont tell let nigel and his cronies gaslight you into believing climate change isnt real.
The UK is quickly becoming a sauna
We’ve had 1 40 degree day 2 years ago and now it’s the normal?
I am begging you, collectively, please do not allow ‘new normal’ to return to our lexicon again