The Global House Is Burning

This is climate change in action.

The UK has declared a national emergency because of the weather.

…And it’s because of heat, not snow or floods.

This is climate change in action.

Graphic: author’s own, made with Canva

I don’t work well in the heat.

I’m a Welsh girl, through and through — the summers of my milennial childhood were predominantly rain, with enough nice days interspersed to make up for it.

And by ‘nice days,’ I mean temperatures of around 15C-20C, occasionally stretching to 21C, with sunshine.

That is the weather I was born and bred for.

…And it’s changed so rapidly.

Every year seems hotter for longer.

Every year seems to bring weeks of over 24C — the temperature at which my brain officially becomes goop and I cease to function with anything resembling normality.

Every year brings a higher chance of days which reach over 30C.

It’s not just anecdotal — the UK is heating, along with the world.