How unusual is this UK heat and is climate change to blame?
How unusual is this UK heat and is climate change to blame?
Scientists are clear that global warming is making heatwaves like this hotter and more likely.
Very, and yes.
It feels like the coast of fucking Mexico. Water doesn't even satisfy, the computers and ovens generate enough heat to make it worse, I've had to come to terms with being in discomfort, sweating and smelling for the foreseeable future. Wednesday and Thursday are forecast to rain and be a lot cooler in my region, but then it's straight back. I am not used to, or designed for, persistent 30°C with fans on 24/7.
If I had a job with no aircon I'd have quit it by now
Nah, this is normal. No one's to blame, least of all the rich.
How is this a question?
It’s called summer and it happens every year. Why does the UK pretend summer doesn’t exist?
No, I’m not denying climate change.
June in London looks pretty atypical.
Appreciated, and I understand a dry heat is more pleasant than a swamp and that the UK doesn’t have AC by default. But I mean very specifically that Brits will seem surprised every year that June is hotter than May. You suggest they get A/C and they say “nah, it’s just a heat wave, innit?”
It’s a three or four month long “heat wave” and it happens every year.