Scientists found evidence that climate change made the warmer weather last month more likely.

We seem to be breaking new records constantly at the moment.

Scientists found evidence that climate change made the warmer weather last month more likely.

  • @G4Z
    20•1 year ago

    I had an argument with some pillock on facebook who was saying ‘it was hot once in 76’, I had to tell him his memory if obviously fucked because 1. data says so and 2. the changes since I was a kid in the 80’s are massive and noticeable to anybody.

    When I was a kid, you were lucky if you got a few days over 20 degrees over summer, if you had a week over 20 it was considered a heatwave of costa del sol proportions. For the last decade or so I’ve noticed spring starts a lot earlier now and summers go on a lot longer, even in winter I’ve seen cold like I’ve never seen on a few occasions (last few have been weirdly warm though).

    Last year it was 38 degrees where I live in fuckin Newcastle for over a week, opening the door was like stepping off the plane in Florida. How fucking stupid do you have to be to be my age or older and not accept this reality staring us all in the fucking face?

    • HeartyBeast
      7•1 year ago

      I’m old enough to remember the summer of ‘76 as I recall it was long and hot, but it was prolonged drought that was the issue. Many reservoirs were almost out and in quite a few towns domestic water supplies were restricted. That meant people in the streets queuing to fill buckets from standpipes. There was a plan to lay a pipe in the outside lane of the M4 to bring water from Wales to London.

      So yes, it stands out in people’s memory as extraordinary and sparked a substantial investment in new reservoir capacity.

      What people forget is the slow but inexorable rise in temperatures since then.

      • NiOP
        10•1 year ago

        Yep! Reminds me of this stat from the met office:

        An updated analysis of the annual UK temperature records from the Met Office shows that since 1884 all of the UK’s ten warmest years have occurred since 2002; whereas none of the ten coldest years have occurred since 1963.

    • NiOP
      3•1 year ago

      Couldn’t agree more, and the data just backs it all up. I’m guessing well get another 40 degree summer this year. As for the people, I’m assuming it’s extreme denial from people who feel like they can’t do anything/feel powerless.

    • mars296
      2•1 year ago

      Fun fact: it has actually never hit 38° in Miami. So it was hotter than (Miami) Florida.

      • NiOP
        4•1 year ago

        Not sure if that’s fun, but it’s certainly interesting!