‘Extreme’ heat and rainfall is becoming the new normal in the UK, says Met Office
https://www.independent.co.uk/weather/met-office-weather-heat-extreme-b2788395.html
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‘Extreme’ heat and rainfall is becoming the new normal in the UK, says Met Office
https://www.independent.co.uk/weather/met-office-weather-heat-extreme-b2788395.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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Not like the Met Office has had climate prediction data for years and years which showed this, if only there were people in the media who aren’t having brown envelopes from the oil firms…
Be it man made or natural, the climate is changing and we have to adapt to that change if humanity is going to continue to be a success.
Yes – let’s keep recycling and lowering our carbon footprints while the rich fly around in private planes and old people swan around on cruise ships.
Back in the 1990s I remember a TV documentary warning about climate change causing more extreme weather in the UK – this isn’t really new.
The real danger is that there are more extremes and that it’s more unpredicatable, as it makes it difficult for the likes of farmers to plan for. They plant crops based on the previous year’s weather only to find it’s completely different this year.
Failed crop harvests not just here in the UK but globally are increasing.
So are plant and animal deaths and extinctions (on an increasingly rapid scale).
All you morons proclaiming “but it’s just a bit sunny!” – unseasonable differences in temperature or climate over a long period have serious consequences.
We no longer have a balanced four seasons, we essentially swing violently between Winter and Summer and when eventually it becomes too much for our food supply chains (due to climate enduced disease increases, these effects can and (in some cases are) leading to shortages.
I doubt many of you will be boasting about the glourious weather as the worst effects of climate change kick in.
Already got climate change deniers going “sounds like a good day!!!!”.
The hotter it gets, the more droughts we’ll have. We’ll have more threats to our water, more wildfires, more favourable conditions for various diseases to spread, more crops that fail and can’t be grown and less food. And droughts lead to worse floods. Tons of important animals will die off as well.
People die from excess heat as well, and the UK generally isn’t built for consistently high temperatures. It’s not a “good day”, it’s a disaster long term, and climate change denial is an extremely dangerous ideology
If this carrys on things are going to get a hell of a lot worse.
If only we’d know about this risk of this happening 40 years ago, we could have done something about it. Oh wait…
Yep. More extreme weather cases that we will inevitably fail to prepare for.
The thing about this that makes me despair is how obvious it is. Climate change deniers in 2025 aren’t just wrong, they’re obviously wrong. They know.
So you have to ask: why? What do they get out of, say, coming on Reddit and being downvoted in every thread about climate change?
Climate change is just one of many things that will destroy a post-truth world.
r/collapse is coming faster than expected, don’t be one of those people who are wilfully ignorant to it, one of those who buries their head in the sand, don’t succumb to the bs being parroted that we can somehow magically solve it, or fix it in the future, it is this hubris and egotistical thinking that got us here in the first place.
All the People in the uk can try and do their bit for climate change and it wont make any difference. Its India and China that are fucking it up
But for the interests of balance, we’ll talk to Dr Oillie who has a competing study that we’re absolutely sure is impartial, despite it being funded by the fossil fuels industry
When are the rich gonna be held accountable? Fuckin flying around like they’re untouchable gods while we watch them destroy the planet
So now start building accommodation that is insulated and ventilated correctly to future proof new housing.
We’ve been predicting this for 50 years. We stopped predicting this 30 years ago and started stating factually that this is the way things are becoming.
Present day, we are still telling people as if it’s brand new information.
We are such a stupid country full of stupid people.
Yeah, but people pointing this out and even (shock) asking for action get nothing but death threats from your average Brit. So they deserve everything they get.
If you’re more upset about traffic being stopped than over 65s dying of heat stroke by the thousands, you’re part of the problem.
Our escape plan is deeply flawed, too.
Nobody talks about transport links, cycle routes and local trams, park and rides etc.
Everyone talks about EVs; 2 tonnes of new metal and plastic for every household in the UK, massive additional consumption. I am sure the focus on EVs is being bankrolled by the big auto industry – they are part of the problem, not the solution.
I just need to change my cottage garden to a mediterranean garden, and accept that we’re done.
There is a solution!
In the 1976 drought, Dennis Howell was “Minister for Drought “, and he travelled around the Country, then wherever he went — it rained.
The Government and Met Office should
A Government — Appoint a successor for Mr Howell
B. Met Office —. Designate the destinations for this person
NOMINATIONS. – Chris Phelps, Victoria Atkins, Kemi Badenock, Nigel Farage
Global warming in action, it’s too late we’ve already fucked it
We get these headlines every hear wave. Yep we get it, it’s not news
Ah ok, leave it then, stick your head in the sand and hope everything will be ok. Typical British shorttermism. Did you support Brexit too ? .
Far right boomers be like “hur dur it’s called summer”
I don’t think recycling paper cups is cutting it anymore lads
It’s largely psychological. People think it’s got much hotter just because it’s hot.
1.25C average increase in 50 years is well below what someone would notice.
It’s not like it’s never regularly got over 30 degrees in summer before
So can we now have palm trees and parrots up here on the north west coast
Good, hopefully the UK turns into a tropical island
Not even close to being the main point but I dislike the way that extremely hot and dry days are referred to as ‘glorious sunshine’ and ‘beautiful weather’ etc on tv and radio weather forecasts. It should be stated for what they are; worrying signs that our climate is changing dangerously.
Oh Lordy, 30 degrees. How will we cope with these never before seen ‘extreme’ temperatures.
Wow, anyone got any ideas of why this is happening? You’d think with advances in science, weather system analysis and the like someone might have predicted this /s