Okay, but my bugbear is that we are constantly told that the human race is responsible for climate change and consequently we need to 'pay more' to compensate. But a quick check of the internet and you will find something interesting...I'll try and keep this simple (for may own benefit!).

The Earth revolves around on an axis that is tilted; it's what gives us the seasons as the Earth moves around the Sun during its 365 day orbit. The angle of tilt is not constant. Today it is at an angle of 23.43635 degrees. 30 days ago it was at an angle of 23.43636 degrees. It 'wobbles' between approximately 22.1 degrees and 24.5 degrees. It takes approximately 26000 years for the Earth to experience both extremes of tilt.

This is natural climate change, which we can do nothing about. If there are any proper scientists who can counter this piece of info, then I will gladly absorb what they say.

hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

Not being a scientist I am not going to comment on that. However, what would seem to be undeniable is that there is more carbon in the atmosphere than at any time since records began. This creates what we know as the greenhouse effect, where heat doesn't dissipate so easily. There also appears to be ample evidence that it is human beings who are responsible for this.

And they still lay them without the correct expansion joint distance. Surely if it’s got soooo much hotter they would’ve adapted accordingly. I don’t know some people just don’t know s***

Next ice age was due in 50,000 years, the delay is a further 50,000. Tomorrow will be the hottest recorded day in the UK. All over the world we are facing unprecedented droughts and floods. Global mean sea level has risen about 8–9 inches since 1880, with about a third of that coming in just the last two and a half decades. The rising water level is mostly due to a combination of melt water from glaciers and ice sheets and thermal expansion of seawater as it warms.

You do the arithmetic.

I don't doubt the figures you mention. But all over the world there are regions which were once underwater and yet now are several hundred feet above sea level. This all occurred way before man made any difference to the climate and were therefore natural events. These events will continue to come and go on some form of regular cycle, with or without the human race on the planet. My concern is that we must beat ourselves up and pay green taxes to supposedly overcome and control these events.
It's all irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, particularly when you factor in the influence of other aspects of the Universe.

hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

I have to say, watching the news, as someone who does not generally look/listen out for such things, the sensationalism and seemingly directed narrative veers very much from ‘wow, it’s ‘blooming hot’.

The words ‘climate change’ have been used over and over again, it’s almost reporting on climate change as opposed to the weather.

I have no dog in this fight and remain suitably ignorant outside of the basic premises on either side but is does jar somewhat listening to it. Does all have a ‘we love the leader’ repetitiveness to it!

‘As temperatures soar due to climate change’ ‘the effects of climate change’ ‘just a mere taste of what is to come’ ‘a warning to us all’ I could literally go on and on.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!