How has climate change affected you?

Question

is it warmer now? rain more? hows it changed your town/city/country? and what do you do to help slow it down?

Answer 1

This spring it has done nothing but rain..I live in Texas. It is the middle of June and the temps have not yet reached the 100s...very abnormal around here. It is cloudy almost everyday..I feel like I am living in england!

Answer 2

Plenty. Here in India there has been a huge rise in average temperature. It is the country with the highest density of population,so as a result more buildings, more destruction of the trees, more traffic and more body temperatures. All these things are making India a land of misery. These days temperatures in the winter ranges between 33 to 10 degree Celsius while the in summer it shoots way over 40. Even in the night its seldom below 30 degrees c.
There is no way to slow this down. People who don't get to eat smoke here. They are such imbeciles. What do u expect? Nothing.

Answer 3

There's are some of the affects I've witnessed where I live (the UK) and where I visit...

This last winter was the warmest on record with almost no snowfall. The ski resorts I go to in Scotland were closed for much of the time due to lack of snow as they have been for much of the winter season these last few years.

I do a lot of ice climbing, snowboarding, skiing etc and in recent years the scope for this has been very limited. Where there should be large accumulations of snow there's been hardly anything. In the past snow would lie year round in some sheltered northern facing corries, this hasn't happened for many years now.

The winters have been much shorter and the summers considerably warmer. Last year there was a serious drought, the year before that record high temperatures were recorded, two years before there were heatwaves that killed a great many people (France was much worse hit).

I live out in the country and around here crops are being harvested earlier, the growing season has been extended, certain crops are now growning further north than previously occured, bird migration times and patterns have changed, butterflies, birds and insects are being seen in places they don't normally visit and are being seen earlier in the season, flowers are blooming earlier, trees are regaining their foiliage earlier.

I also take part in a lot of water sports and the seas and lakes have gradually been getting warmer, at sea there's added dangers from sharks, whales and jellyfish that are now found in waters they wouldn't normally visit and at times they wouldn't normally be seen.

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As for what I'm doing to slow it down... recycling where possible, driving that bit less, conserving energy and thinking about products and services before buying them.

Last year we (a friend and I) engaged in a large scale tree planting programme, enough to offset the carbon emissions of 25,000 people for a year. It's a cost-effective and rewarding way to go carbon negative for life.

Answer 4

Climate change has not affected me at all. All of the political hype around it has, however, caused me a great deal of anxiety as well as some very real loss of liberty.

Answer 5

Absolutely nothing. Has not had the slight bit of impact. I would be surprised if people answer this honestly and say there is. What is that 1mm of extra tide ruining your surf? that one degree in the last hundred years made you sweat just a tad bit more?

Answer 6

Well, in san diego last summer, it was i think the hottest summer recorded.
and im sure this summer wil be worse :(
it sucks for a person who loves the rain
we never get ANY anymore :(

Answer 7

It's snowier here

Answer 8

i live in sarasota florida and its hot as hell here and stays hotter than usually and stronger hurricanes