"A climate attribution study has found that last month's mini-heatwave can be linked to human-influenced climate change...That metaphor about frogs being slowly boiled in a pot and thinking how lovely it is? That’s quite literally us."
The issue is more than about nice weather, living by the coast, people rely on good weather for toursts and holiday makers staying and importantly spending money in the area, if the weather is good, people are out and about, especially on the beach, a week later more people are doing doing the same.
If we have a wet spring and easter break, this impacts where people choose to go for their summer break, so this could be overseas. So areas like where I am suffer.
Nice hot weather is make or break for many.
So people then see climate change as in warmer weather as a 'good' thing as it helps economically.
I am not sure how those locally running a business think about climate change, some are struggling to survive on a day-to-day basis with ever rising costs and narrower margins, now thanks to labour higher wage costs and higher employer national insurance contributions just add to all this.
The thing is, when the climate does collapse everything could end up going pear shaped very quickly and the impact economically will be catastropic.
Another reason to have Universal basic income as a proper safety net.
I am fine with what you just said here, i commented from the view point of living in an area that is dependent on good weather for tourism which is bound to the local economy.
I also agree about not using certain words here, global warming suggests it is going to get warmer only, where as using terms such as climate change or maybe we need to use catastropic climate change, is to me a far better description of what we face.
Reading the comments in the dailyfail on this, shows a trend where people don't trust science, don't believe science as what is predicted never comes true or scientists are constantly changingj their predictions, or a scientist will say food x is bad for you, then a week later another study comes out with the contrary, Social meaia has a hell of a lot to answer on this, and Ai is not going to help either esp if it scrapes actual science along side total nonsense and stores it in a single learning model data.
So people don't get the science, let alone the scientific process of refining our ideas constantly based on new evidence.
Saying that T coronia Borealis was meant to go Nova this time last year and nothing has happened yet.
@zleap @ccferrie I think the words "hot" and "warmer" should be banned from these reports.
"Windier", "stormier" and "heavier showers" should be used instead.
The range of weather events types is just broadening quickly.
Stop thinking 'holidays' and start thinking about farming and crops in an increasingly hostile environment.