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    9 days ago

    And the infuriating part is that, even after seeing images like these, there will still be many people who believe climate change to be a hoax.

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    I live in Edinburgh, 400 miles from London. Large parts of the city look like this. We had a massive Wildfire on Arthur’s Seat, our equivalent of New York’s Central Park. Nearly died walking up a hill in the city center.

    Shits fucked man.

    • deft@lemmy.wtf
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      Big fucked and nobody is going to solve it before many of us poors are dead.

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      God… I didn’t heard about that. What are journalisst doing? Scotland is basically next to France. Why do I hear about tsunami warning in Japan but not that?!

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          Was this last month? The article is date from 20 July 2026 but other mention I found are from last year. I find article on the same topic from a year ago almost world for world the same for the few recent articles. Is this the second year it happened?

          I’m very sorry for you either way.

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            Yes, and it was the biggest wildfire in recent memory. Whole of Salsbury Crags caught fire. Burnt for a couple of days. It was bigger than last year’s fires. We once had a fire in February.

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      If they need to be watered, yes. England used to be famous for having lush green lawns naturally. (Obviously not anymore)

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    10 days ago

    Well, the silver lining is that it’s good for finding parchmarks and old unknown archaeological sites.

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      When I read this, the comment right below it said:

      Looks like a still from the original Fallout

      Any response?

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        I’ve discussed with my people. They said:

        Please keep the nukes away from us.

        We’re a (mostly) peace-loving people that just wanna drink some beer and eat Vegemite.

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      Yes absolutely. Lived in London for 18 years, till 2023 and never seen anything like that. Grass was always green throughout summer.

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        Silver lining to this is that boomers can stick it up their bum with their summer of '76 as it’s now been hotter and drier.

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        I’ve just always lived in places where it goes brown, assumed it just went brown in the summer everywhere. Like I live in the Pacific Northwest, we get a good amount of rain it being a rainforest, it’s raining right now, grass is still brown 🤷

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      Yes I usually have to cut the grass every 1-2 weeks from around April though to late September. I think the last time I cut it was may, it’s just stopped growing, and now I’m starting to get a dead spot in the middle that gets the most sun. Everywhere that is normally green is just dead short grass.

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      Grass here grows so fast in the summer even though our temperature is similar because it’s (thankfully) our rainy season. It dies back in the winter or at least slows way down.

      Unfortunately our rainy season has not yet dug us out of the historic drought of the last couple years.

      ETA we do not water the “lawn” though, it just does what it does. Is mostly weeds. I do water the food plants.

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      They do (used to) in my climate as well. The higher part would turn yellow just a week or two before wieltering and only if the grass could grow enough to produce seeds.

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      Depends on rainfall but usually it’s green throughout the year. Somebody told me that’s why need is good here - don’t know if that’s true.

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    Golf courses plant summer grass here in the US southwest. It starts to die off at cool temps, so they seed winter grass too. Looks like there’s about to be money in landscaping. Hopefully the UK treats immigrant labor better. 🫤

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    How hot was it there? Looks more like drought. This spring/early summer was very dry. Had some rain in july but nothing that reached deeper into the soil.

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      Aren’t (big) heatwaves usually followed by droughts?

      I mean, huge high-pressure fronts tend to chase away clouds and thereby rain, causing a stark rise in temperature, and ultimately resulting in a drought.

      Mind you, this is off the top of my head, so feel free to correct me.