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> Meanwhile the U.K. is, like the rest of the world, getting warmer. I'm yet to speak to someone who doesn't look at me like I've got 3 heads when I mention th

> Meanwhile the U.K. is, like the rest of the world, getting warmer. I'm yet to speak to someone who doesn't look at me like I've got 3 heads when I mention this as a possible reason not to go abroad. I even mention our recent heat waves. Nope, doesn't register. Hot = abroad. I mean, if there's data to say otherwise, I won't deny it. Just find it funny.

benj111 7y ago
I've made an increasingly conscious decision to give up flying. I never really liked the flying itself (well waiting in airports) but every year my family go to some random bit of the UK, and all have been nice holidays, it helps that I'm not one for sitting on the beach, and I don't like it too hot to do anything. I won't rule out doing a trip of a lifetime, but compared to a package holiday to Spain, Greece, Ibiza. Britain can hold its own. I've found an inverse correlation between supposed touristyness and what I actually enjoy, so I don't rule out those countries, but it's getting to the non touristy parts of those countries, when all the flights are to tourist destinations.
- epanchin 7y ago
  Quite attractive not having to buy other currencies at the moment too.
- tonyedgecombe 7y ago
  We’ve been doing this for years, a days walking followed by fish and chips keeps me happy.
radiowave 7y ago
I think part of what's happening there might be that what you describe as "hot = abroad", on closer consideration, would actually expand to "hot and not raining = abroad". Global warming might be delivering "hot", but it hasn't been delivering "not raining". So this might be connected to the discrepancy you've noticed between the language of climate change, and people's opinions about the weather. I've certainly spoken to people who've tried to tell me that increased rainfall is the reason why they don't believe global warming is occurring, presumably because: (a) they conflate warming with "good weather" (for some definition of good weather), and (b) they're not well acquainted with how the water gets up in to the sky in the first place.
- epanchin 7y ago
  Summer 2018 the UK got so little rain all the grass in our parks went yellow. I personally took a domestic vacation because the weather was too good to miss.

benj111 7y ago

I've made an increasingly conscious decision to give up flying. I never really liked the flying itself (well waiting in airports) but every year my family go to some random bit of the UK, and all have been nice holidays, it helps that I'm not one for sitting on the beach, and I don't like it too hot to do anything. I won't rule out doing a trip of a lifetime, but compared to a package holiday to Spain, Greece, Ibiza. Britain can hold its own. I've found an inverse correlation between supposed touristyness and what I actually enjoy, so I don't rule out those countries, but it's getting to the non touristy parts of those countries, when all the flights are to tourist destinations.

epanchin 7y ago
Quite attractive not having to buy other currencies at the moment too.
tonyedgecombe 7y ago
We’ve been doing this for years, a days walking followed by fish and chips keeps me happy.

radiowave 7y ago

I think part of what's happening there might be that what you describe as "hot = abroad", on closer consideration, would actually expand to "hot and not raining = abroad". Global warming might be delivering "hot", but it hasn't been delivering "not raining". So this might be connected to the discrepancy you've noticed between the language of climate change, and people's opinions about the weather. I've certainly spoken to people who've tried to tell me that increased rainfall is the reason why they don't believe global warming is occurring, presumably because: (a) they conflate warming with "good weather" (for some definition of good weather), and (b) they're not well acquainted with how the water gets up in to the sky in the first place.

epanchin 7y ago
Summer 2018 the UK got so little rain all the grass in our parks went yellow. I personally took a domestic vacation because the weather was too good to miss.