Another climate record set.

September. Usually a month associated with the turning of the seasons. A time when the nights start getting earlier to signify the approach of Autumn. NOT the month associated with an average temperature of 15.4 degrees Celsius. When the numbers are officially tallied they will have broken the temperatures set back in 1949.

If there’s one thing I hate hearing is people saying, ‘Ooh it’s nice to have a bit of sunshine for a change,’ when I’m not allowed to water my plants and the guinea pig is down the vets suffering from heat stroke. You see, contrary to popular belief, the spate of heat waves we have experienced over the past few months is not something that should be praised but rather something that should be considered as an omen of bad things to come.

These aberrations in our climate aren’t the usual, run-of-the-mill, British weather eccentricities but real warnings that things are seriously shifting in the air around us.

Such heat waves, as endured in July, are supposed to only hit us about every 20 years according to Met Office scientists. However, with the consistently rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere they forecast that the heat waves would be coming in at least once a year by the end of this century.

I shouldn’t worry about that, though, as the human race will probably be extinct by then. Meh.

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